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Latin shrugs greet any query as to where Papa Mussolini and Père Laval earned all that money. Both have airtight alibis...
Also a lawyer is José Laval's fiancé, almost forgotten last week in the dither over her dowry. He, aristocratic young Count René de Chambrun, is a nephew of the late, great Nicholas Longworth, a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette...
Dictator Mussolini is a writer and what he is paid by the Hearst papers is supposed to be as great as his fame. He also owns Italy's leading daily and his Government controls the Press. Monsieur Laval, as he says, is a lawyer. As fat fees have rolled in during the years, he has piled investment on shrewd investment, now owns several estates and a frowning medieval castle...
Convening at Nancy last week members of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which recently cracked down on U. S. "Slave Dancer" Joan Warner (TIME, July 22), took ap proving note of Jose Laval's engagement, adopted a resolution of "hope that after her marriage to Count René de Chambrun she will have many children...
...Hall of Nobles, but efforts were made to suggest that the Comintern had adopted a new policy of supporting democratic governments temporarily as bulwarks against Fascism (TIME, Aug. 5). This change of policy was supposed to apply to France-following negotiations of Dictator Joseph Stalin and French Premier Pierre Laval-but proceedings of the Congress last week showed that it applies to few if any other great countries and definitely not to the U. S., where the object of the Comintern remains Revolution...