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...rounds of diplomatic hopscotch with French Premier Pierre Laval and one round with Italian Premier Benito Musso- Mussolini?both of sturdiest peasant stock? profoundly wilted and discouraged last week fashionable young Captain Anthony Eden of the British Foreign Office who is fairly popping with blue blood...
...sighed Mr. Eden as he returned to London. Anxious friends thought the old Etonian looked as tired as after his encounters with Hitler and Stalin which put him to bed for a month (TIME, April 1). Just before leaving Paris last week he summed up his conversations with Premier Laval despondently thus: "Oh, we discussed what should be done next, now that what has been done has been done...
...blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) but made a further and secret agreement with the Reich. This, made by the British Admiralty, was concealed until last week from the British Foreign Office, a procedure almost unprecedented. It was forced into the open after Premier Laval asked to see Britain's copy of Germany's new Naval building plans and was readily promised them by Mr. Eden, so that France could proceed to make her plans. Next day French Ambassador Charles Corbin called at the British Foreign Office for the promised papers, discovered that the British...
...underpinnings of international law and comity. Smug Japanese were made to feel that their violations of the Nine-Power Treaty can be made "right" if Japan can persuade any one of the other eight signatories to exchange favorable notes with her. In Paris the new Cabinet of Premier Pierre Laval were inclined to answer oui when asked by the French Admiralty whether, in the opinion of the French Foreign Office, the Washington Treaty limiting French naval strength had not been largely invalidated last week by the general instability of world treaties created by His Majesty's Government...
Died. Philippe Marcombes, 58, Radical Socialist Minister of Education in the French Cabinet formed last fortnight by Premier Pierre Laval; of heart disease; in Paris, just before the new Cabinet's first meeting in the Elysée Palace...