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...Eden's stops in Paris, before and after he visited Rome last week, Premier Laval first obtained from him Great Britain's promise, then informed him it had been broken. In private M. Laval's words were tart, but in public he made pointed demonstration of his warm personal friendship for the harassed young man who is Britain's Minister Without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs. Together they dined & wined in a Paris restaurant, later appeared arm in arm in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies with the explanation that "Captain Eden wishes to observe the Chamber...
While the Briton was in Rome, Premier Laval delivered himself of a speech which proved the most popular he has ever made. Said he with peasant bluntness: "In this world there are five or six men upon whom peace depends. Destiny has placed me among them. ... If an agreement with Berlin is impossible, I shall not hesitate to conclude it, but if there is to be such an accord it cannot be between two nations only but with several...
After this reminder that Adolf Hitler's policy is to refuse to sign the general peace accords the Great Powers have repeatedly poked at him, preferring to sow dissension if possible with separate treaties, Pierre Laval continued: "In my political life I have met many great men and eminent specialists, but now I believe in only two things: good sense and courage! If we do not have courage it is not only the institutions of the Republic, but France herself that is going to be destroyed...
This was understood as an appeal to all Frenchmen of goodwill to support the drastic budget-balancing slashes for which the Chamber and Senate recently gave Premier Laval special powers (TIME, June 17). "I am not going to abuse them," he promised last week, "but I am going to use them! . . . France must, if she is to be strong and healthy, do two things: First, adjust her income to her expenditure; Second, count on herself first of all for assurance of her security...
...Salads! After being received in Rome by Il Duce, Premier Lyons, who in Paris had made no effort to meet Premier Laval or any other French statesman, cried, "I want to pay homage to Mussolini. . . . He has done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...