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...bustled about, trying to form a cabinet, the youngest Premier met remarkably few rebuffs. French politicians realized that a prolonged crisis would surely lead to riots. M. Laval, of course, was already in the Foreign Office and Premier Flandin was glad enough to leave his old chief there. His other old chief, M. André Tardieu, had just had an operation. 'T go into retirement with M. Doumergue," he observed dramatically when M. Flandin offered him a portfolio. But M. Tardieu hinted that he will be all right in a few weeks, by which time there may be another...
Foils: Holt (P) defeated William F. Gerber, 5-3; Shaskauskas (P) defeated Laval J. LeBoeuf, 5-3 and William B. Berssenbrugge, 5-4; Berssenbrugge defeated Farrell (P), 5-1, and Holt (P), 5-4; LeBoeuf defeated Holt (P), 5-0, and Farrell (P), 5-3; Gerber defeated Farrell (P), 5-2; John Seegar defeated Shaskauskas...
Foils: Chosa A. Fujino defeated Day (C), 4-0, Culbertson (C), 5-2, and Epstein (C), 5-1; William F. Gerber defeated Culbertson (C), 5-0, and Day (C), 5-4; Epstein (C) defeated William B. Berssenbrugge, 5-2, and Gerber, 5-1; Day (C) defeated Laval J. Le Boeuf, 5-4; Culbertson (C) defeated Le Boeuf...
...Philip F. Lilienthal '36 will fight for Harvard. Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, and Edward E. Langenau '35 will be in the epee event, and Edward A. Ackerman '34, Richard Morgan '36, and Morton Grant '36 will be the sabremen. Chosa A. Fujino '37, William F. Gerber '37, Laval J. Leboeuf '37, John Seeger '37, Edgar R. Miller '37, and William F. Hayden '37 will oppose the Brown freshmen...
...every party except Royalists, orthodox Socialists and Communists. Much was made of the fact that, including "Gastounet," who served as Premier once before in 1913-14, six onetime Premiers were in it: Edouard Herriot, now Minister of State without portfolio; André Tardieu, also a Minister of State; Pierre Laval, now Minister of Colonies; Albert Sarraut, now Minister of the Interior; Louis Barthou, now Minister of Foreign Affairs. Republican idealists were more concerned over the fact that for the first time since the founding of the Third Republic the Cabinet contained two generals. Marshal Pétain, defender of Verdun...