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Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...
...lake, agreeably perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
Worse still, in Paris the Cabinet was split. Supple Foreign Minister Pierre Laval who is a disciple of Peace Apostle Aristide Briand, held that negotiation with Germany can still bring peace. Kinetic Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin insisted that Germany must be ringed around with "an alliance cordon of steel...
...army in violation of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) Last week M. Flandin decided that French youths of the class which has just finished its military training shall not return to their homes but remain under arms until further orders. Newly trustful of Italy since the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 14), France withdrew nearly 30,000 troops last week from her mountainous Italian frontier, sent them scurrying cross-country to the pleasant valleys and leafy woods Germans might attack...
...which Italy received a 3,000-share interest by the Laval-Mussolini pact (TIME...