Word: laval
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...when the Prime Minister denounced "Crazy World Economy" and called War Debts and Reparations "this absurd entanglement of the impossible." They relaxed, yawned when he proposed nothing more than to follow the line of re-examining German capacity-to-pay, the line already taken by Mr. Hoover and M. Laval. When Orator MacDonald turned to gold, harping on Philip Snowden's old project for a world monetary conference to "wisely redistribute" the precious metal, M. P.s noticed again that in fiscal matters the Prime Minister is a romantic. Realistically the U. S. and France oppose all schemes for "distributing...
Scarcely has Premier Laval left America's shores when Signor Dino Grandi, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will arrive. A fiery little man who represents Mussolini, he comes to chat with President Hoover on matters of international interest...
...revision of German war indemnities. He intends to talk quite freely of Italy's stand on all these matters. Fresh from Berlin where he met and talked with the heads of the German government, Grandi will be able to present a different point of view than that of Laval...
This conference between Hoover and Grandi is not an attempt to offset the influence of Laval, but rather, like Laval's visit itself, an effort to bring about a better understanding between nations by mutual and unhampered discussion...
...this hubbub glossed over the fact that M. Laval obtained from Mr. Hoover no guarantee of French "Security." It has been clear from the first that the Hoover Moratorium would have to be extended or some cancellation made, but the President prefers to have Europe ask Congress. As something bright and dramatic, Premier Laval announced that he would call what amounts to a new Reparations Conference in December at Biarritz...