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...State and other League States. Since the League has pronounced Italy a Covenant-breaking State, Geneva correspondents were on watch last week to see whether intercourse would be had by the Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. Zealots said it would be a "League crime" if French Premier Pierre Laval or British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had dealings of any sort with the Fascist Baron or even spoke...
...Paris, as Premier Laval boarded a wagon-lit for Geneva, he snapped positively, "Peace will be made! It will be made despite malevolent indiscretion, spiteful controversies and misleading reports...
Meanwhile the Party agreed to leave the suppression of the Fascists to their Deputies in Parliament which reconvenes next month. To this triumph of PATIENCE no small contribution was made by Fascist de La Rocque himself last week. In a letter to Pierre Laval which was made public at the crucial moment, the No. 1 French Fascist declared: "We have no other intention than to defend the Republic. We will obey the new laws and hold our demonstrations on private property...
...laws, hastily decreed by Premier Laval as his Contribution to PATIENCE a few days earlier, deprive Frenchmen of the right to carry firearms without a permit and aim, somewhat feebly, to end the recent series of "surprise Fascist mobilizations" by making prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree...
Significance: Premier Laval was left free to continue his difficult "Honest Broker" activities between Fascist Italy and Parliamentary Britain...