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...have watched all avenues of social acclaim for the appearance of H. I. H. Dmitri, Grand Duke of Russia, who you stated in TIME, Oct. 12, was booked on the S. S. Ile de France, for the U. S., sailing Oct. 16, same time Premier Laval came over. A few club women of this section desire the Romanov's whereabouts explained. We have been reading Grand Duchess Marie's Education of a Princess this summer, and cannot shake off the sensation of being sort o' responsible for her brother's comfortable, uneclipsed safety. That the sparkling...
...ornate Palais Bourbon, confidence in Premier Laval grew like a great political snowball last week. With his stay-at-home wife and his gadabout daughter José both present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval...
Less than a year ago even Frenchmen were asking, "Who is this Laval?" Last week the Premier pushed completely out of the Chamber picture Old Brer Briand, his veteran Foreign Minister whose support was necessary to prop up the young Laval Cabinet last spring. In effect, M.Laval reversed (perhaps rashly) the soft-spoken policy toward Germany of his own Foreign Office. When M. Briand last addressed the Chamber applause rose from the Left and Left Centre. When M. Laval spoke last week, the Centre and Right vociferously cheered his words: "We will accept no new Reparations arrangement except...
President Hoover was supposed to have agreed to this "French thesis," and Premier Laval has been repeating it with insistence to German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch at Paris (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). But in flat contradiction the German note declared last week that the new Young Plan committee "must examine the problem in its entirety" both as to non-postponable and postponable annuities "and must especially take into account that the question of Germany's private indebtedness must be newly regulated in good time before the end of February...
That in such circumstances the German mark should touch par last week, wise-acres attributed to speculative confidence springing from the fact that Germany had at last taken the Hoover-Laval "initiative" and seemed on the way to a new easing of her threatened fiscal position. But for the Dawes Committee the post-War mark could never have been stabilized on a gold basis. But for the Young Committee it could not have been kept there. But for bright hopes spurting from the proposed new committee the mark might not have hung high last week...