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Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...
...peace of Europe, and it used them to the hilt. Quickly came the little Chan- cellor's reward. Worried Italy, France, Britain gave Austria permission to increase her regular army of 22,000 men to 30,000, the full strength allowed under the Treaty of St. Germain, "as long as the special conditions exist." as long as Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany. Permission included a good deal more than adding another 8,000 men to Austria's long-term volunteers. Excitable old General Karl Vaugoin, Minister of War, blurted...
...whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited by the Treaty of St. Germain to 30,000 soldiers who must enlist for twelve years) is far too small to guard Austria's frontiers. In Paris shaggy Premier Edouard Daladier, outraged by Germany's reaction to the French protest last week, gave correspondents to understand that France will back Austria to the limit...
...ornate French Finance Ministry, after the Herriot Cabinet's fall, an agitated functionary rushed into the office of Finance Minister ad interim Louis Germain-Martin who was hungry and just about to go out to lunch...
Replied M. Germain-Martin as he struggled into his double-breasted greatcoat, clapped on his derby hat and made for the door, "Enter it on the books as 'deferred, pending the formation of a new govern-ment...