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...Colonel Jean Fabry, Right. Navy: Deputy François Piétri, the last to try to form a Cabinet last week before M. Laval was called...
...Premier by granting his Cabinet not "full powers" but carefully restricted extraordinary power for stated and specific purposes. Even this the Chamber voted with extreme reluctance, so ingrained is French dislike for any executive remotely dictatorial. There was not a single cheer, but thoughtful silence when M. Pierre Laval, the earthy and black-nostriled disciple of Peace-Maker Aristide Briand, arose last week to offer France a Cabinet of his choosing which soon received the Chamber's vote of confidence 324 to 160 with 100 abstentions...
...Shrewd Laval. That France, after two years of Adolf Hitler's blustering at the rate, should still want a disciple of M. Briand for Premier, revealed again the peace depths in French hearts. Pierre Laval loomed last week as the right Premier to save the franc and France because he has built himself up in the eyes of all Frenchmen by ceaseless peace efforts as French Foreign Minister. These climaxed in the Stresa Pact and his visit to Moscow (TIME, May 27). M. Laval's manner of achieving power as Premier, for the third time, all French politicians...
Swarthy M. Laval with his white string tie* had seemed the logical choice when his tall chief, Pierre Etienne Flandin, was overthrown after asking the restive Chamber for "full powers" in a speech decidedly too long and probably too emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate...
...Government of Action." It was pitch dark (3:10 a. m.) when M. Laval's white tie entered the President's Palace as the pale oriflamme of this new Cabinet: Premier & Foreign Minister: Pierre Laval, Independent...