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Presidents pair only with Premiers. Foreign Ministers, one rung down the diplomatic ladder, pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
...Power whose currency is at par and whose exports are equaled by no competitor would be rolling in riches, able to pay her debts twice over. Not so the Fatherland. In Berlin last week stern Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning took that famed "initiative" which President Hoover and Premier Laval recently agreed should be taken toward securing a further reduction of what Germany must pay (TIME...
...justice to the present state of things, Germany's note trespassed upon and overstepped Premier Laval's contention that the "non-postponable" German payments under the Young Plan are positively non-postponable, and that neither they nor German private debts and short term credits are within the competence of a committee called under the Young Plan...
...visits of Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Grandi to this country are a clear proof, if further proof is necessary, that in the modern structure of the world American isolation is an impossibility. We are in the midst of world affairs and we find it increasingly necessary to act in close co-operation with other States. When these visits are taken in conjunction with the relation that has been established between the United States and the League in connection with the Manchurian dispute it becomes evident that the United States has in large part already abandoned any strictly isolationist policy...
...Jose Laval--A recent guest at the White House...