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...Nations and indulged in an orgy of self-interest. Among parties of the Left and Right fierce anti-Fascist and pro-Fascist epithets flew. Deputies rushed up from the provinces and buzzed feverishly in the lobbies of their Chamber, though it was not in session and Premier Pierre Laval would rather have butted his hard head into a hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That...
...Honest Broker" Pierre Laval. In French eyes the British Royal Family became partisans last week when King George conferred explicitly on the Italo-Ethiopian war with his Ministers at Buckingham Palace (see p. 23) and Edward of Wales emulated his grandsire Edward VII by having Premier Pierre Laval to luncheon on the crisis at Britain's Paris Embassy. Necessarily President Albert Lebrun then had H. R. H. to luncheon and the persuasive charm of Britain's "Empire Salesman" was fresh in the mind of the President of France when he summoned the French Cabinet to hear Premier Laval...
...German aggression can be thwarted only by prompt action of the league of Nations. Yet despite this, France continues to play drop the handkerchief while Geneva strives to rally the forces of the world against the depredations of Italy. Nothing could be more asinine than the recent statement by Laval, that while France would fulfill her covenant duties, still she would strive to find some way of enticing Benito and Haile to lie down in the jungle together...
Soon they goggled even more, at news that the Prince, supposedly far removed from politics, was in war-scared Paris, with Premier Laval as his luncheon guest...
...first act in the tragedy, one must revert to the Secret Treaties of London in 1915, and the failure of Britain and France in 1919 to live up to their promises. The second act took place in Rome, the first week of this year, when M. Laval, either intentionally or unintentionally, let Mussolini understand that France would not intervene in an Italian campaign against Ethiopia. The third act, of longer duration, is spread over the nine months of this year, and is marked by the consistent failure of the Powers to realize that Mussolini has meant business all along...