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...foreign relations, and the appearance of the more thoroughly digested accounts for which one must wait considerable time. With headlines succeeding one another in a rapid course of attractive, yet often superficial heights, a Hoover Moratorium, an Anschluss, the fall of the pound, a visit of Grandi or of Laval, soon are forgotten by a large number of those who constitute public opinion; others who still remember these events in 1931 may nevertheless find in 'World Affairs' clear expositions of what actually happened. The book is primarily an enlarged summary, and the writers make no attempt to compose sybilline discourse...
Amid a fist fight in the Chamber of Deputies, confidence in this Cabinet was voted 309 to 262, whereat a spectator in the gallery dropped dead "of excitement" (said the Chamber physician). Later the new Cabinet will face the Senate, which overthrew the previous (Laval) Cabinet. Lying extremely low as Minister of Labor, Pierre Laval was obliged, as his first duty, to report that Frenchmen "totally unemployed" increased 19,000 last week to a grand total...
Naturally Pal Laval was shrewd enough to sugarcoat this unpleasant pill with a statement that Great Britain has five times more unemployed than France, Germany eleven times more, the U. S. 17 times more...
...Recently ruptured: the friendship of Aristide Briand and his protege Pierre Laval, the great old man withdrawing to his farm at Cocherel...
...Laval estimate was 10,000,000 U. S. unemployed. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor last week put the figure at 8,300,000, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde at 6,000,000. On this subject only the British and German Governments compile reasonably accurate statistics...