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...William E. Borah--chairman of Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, commented forcefully on questions raised by President's plan to check depression and by Premier Laval's visit...
Mario Roustan, Minister of Public Instruction and Art in the Laval Cabinet, rose early in Paris last week and walked to work. On the way he passed the open gate of the Carnavalet Museum, once the home of letter-writing Mme de Sevigne, now the Historical Museum of the City. There was no one in sight. He walked in. He walked through the court and up the stairs, sauntered through the deserted galleries...
...Cheered a pledge by Premier Pierre Laval to stave off unemployment, which has come late to prosperous France, by spending four billion francs ($150,000,000) extra on public works...
...Gave Premier Laval a small working vote-of-confidence, 311 to 272, on the issue of French State Railway passenger fares which the Government was authorized to up. Deliberately the Premier postponed debate on his visit to President Hoover, hoping to have something to show for it before the Chamber began to criticize. This "something" would, of course, be a move by Germany to take the "initiative" (desired by Mr. Hoover and M. Laval) in proposing a re-examination of Reparations and War Debts...
Ever since his return to Paris, M. Laval has been hard at it with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch (TIME, Nov. 9), but Deutschland has proved coy. If she is to take the initiative, Germany wants to propose a joint reconsideration of her business obligations (private short- term credits) along with her political Reparations debt...