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...gentleman and a sportsman in the eyes of the tall Britons with whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego their week end is met either with a freezing stare or the suave, stock British excuse: "Impossible, I am afraid. In Paris, yes. But in London even a rumor that the Cabinet may find it necessary to break...
...method of approach until Germany has responded to the advances of England and France. If she persists in adopting her present isolationist attitude, she will drive her former opponents to far closer ties than have yet been cemented. But if she is able to recognize that Messrs. Eden, Simon, Laval and Flandin are doing all in their power to prevent another armageddon, and are sincere in their desire to right some of the wrongs inflicted on her by the Versailles Treaty, the new diplomacy will be firmly entrenched...
...French Premier more than doubted. In Paris last week M. Flandin's press officer had orders to say that the visit might well turn out to be one of "courtesy and contact," with none of the quick action on great issues that Premier Benito Mussolini gave Foreign Minister Laval last month. Since Italy is minute, Britain monstrous, the London talks may still be of greater importance than those at Rome, but to be sure of wasting no time M. Flandin, a driving worker, busied himself with a great cleanup of State business in Paris last week before he crossed...
...hard money folk the brightest news in Paris last week was persistent leakage of rumors that Pierre Laval in Rome promised Benito Mussolini a whopping French loan to defend Italy's lira on the gold standard...
Eastern Locarno. Assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was the great French protagonist of a pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers. This week Louis Barthou's successor. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, must try to carry on. In French eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...