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...July: M. Laval signed the Moratorium Accord after negotiations at the French Foreign Office with Statesman Stimson and Secretary Mellon, "to which Briand was brought in like an aged grandmother whom it is desired not to leave out of the family festivities," as venomous "Pertinax" remarked in L'Echo de Paris...
September: Taking Old Brer Briand in tow, Premier Laval junketed to Berlin, conferred with Chancellor Bruning and Foreign Minister Curtius (since resigned), achieved little or nothing, but boosted his fame enormously and is said to have made a warm friend of Dr. Bruning. ("What a man!" Visitor Laval exclaimed to beaming German newshawks. "I wish there were more such men in France...
October: Leaving his Foreign Minister and his wife behind and taking his daughter Jose (Josette to him) along, Pierre Laval made the journey to Washington, D. C. that stamped his name upon millions of U. S. minds and swelled his fame throughout the world...
President Hoover is well known to dislike almost all Frenchmen. He and Premier Laval had high words which they called "free and frank." Smoking U. S. cigarets at the furious rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging...
Concrete result of the White House negotiations was almost nil, Premier Laval departing vastly puffed and pleased by a verbal agreement that he should summon the German Ambassador on his return to Paris and start Germany taking the initiative for a final settlement of her troubles by appealing under the Young Plan for a committee to study them, which has now been done...