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...meet an emergency, is necessarily called upon to make the next move. This whole problem is not now 'up to' the American Government." The Lamont statement was widely accepted as a Wall Street accolade for President Hoover and the "hands off" policy he agreed upon with Premier Laval. What the President could not endorse in the Lamont article was a sound flaying of protective tariffs which prevent debtor nations from earning enough to repay their loans...
President Hoover might never have allowed Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") 'Salomon in the White House if Premier Pierre Laval of France had not politely insisted. Like Benito Mussolini, Ramsay MacDonald and Chancellor Heinrich Briming, Premier Laval has become convinced that Dr. Salomon's unposed, spontaneous snapshots are historic human documents to be preserved for posterity and schoolbooks. FORTUNE brought Dr. Salomon to the U. S., sent him to Washington to take pictures of the Hoover-Laval Conference...
...their fighting planes full of flowery bouquets at Havre last week, zoomed aloft with warlike clatter. Circling around the incoming 5. S. He de France, they dived and swooped, strewed the great ship's decks with roses. Amid tootling whistles, dinning sirens, blaring bands, and frantic shouts of "vive Laval!" the Premier of France came home and brought home Daughter Jose. To French reporters she babbled, "America is a fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however, that I shall accept...
...touch with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch. As fast as possible the two statesmen will elaborate plans for Germany to take the "initiative" toward an extension of the Hoover One-Year Moratorium or some actual cancellation of Reparations and War Debts which President Hoover and Premier Laval agreed Germany must take (TIME, June 29). "President Hoover stressed and I agree," declared bubbling, vigorous M. Laval, "that recovery depends on helping Germany to get on her feet...
...Back in Manhattan, she did not giggle when ex-Governor Smith of New York took her father up the Empire State Building, asked him to look through a telescope, nor become flustered when it turned out that vainly peering Premier Laval could see nothing until a dime was inserted...