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Italy and Austria: In graceful tribute to the success of Foreign Minister Laval and Premier Mussolini in their" recent Rome parley (TIME, Jan. 14, 21) Britain last week "cordially welcomed" the declaration of France and Italy that they mean "to collaborate," and agreed that Britain, France and Italy shall "consult together if the independence and integrity of Austria are menaced...
...arrival the French Delegation made for the Savoy Hotel, as French diplomats in London always do, deeming its food the best in the city. That night Premier Flandin and M. Laval were obliged, however, to eat amid the stuffy splendor of Londonderry House because the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry have what amounts to a permanent social option on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and any celebrity guests of His Majesty's Government...
...increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty of Versailles by rearming Germany, and 2) just how great is Britain's potential danger from...
After 72 hours of intensive negotiation, M. Laval and Sir John released the text of what was at least a formal agreement. To newshawks eager to call it a pact, Pierre Laval observed indulgently, "I should call it a full agreement, but I see no reason why you should not call it a pact...
...Hitler!" So proud of these agreements were the Frenchmen that M. Laval asked French reporters up to his suite at the Savoy and let them interview him extempore before a microphone, their questions and his replies going out by radio to all France-a novelty unprecedented...