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...Since fiscal relief to Germany & Europe must be largely at U. S. expense, the President is in a strong position to bargain with M. Laval for French support of drastic Hoover arms limitation proposals at the League's World Conference in Geneva next February...
...radios from the lie de France made clear that Premier Laval will urge the French plan of limiting only armament budgets; whereas the U. S. has always maintained that "Disarmament" or "Limitation" will prove a mockery if it is not based on scrapping actual war boats and guns, limiting actual trained reserves...
Kellogg (or some other) Pact should agree to aid that nation if it be attacked. An agreement in this sense would be called by M. Laval "implementing the Peace Pact." He is said to have dropped the original French plea for armed aid to the nation attacked, now urges economic boycott of the aggressor...
...Finally President & Premier are expected to stand shoulder to shoulder against British efforts to promote a world conference for the distribution of gold to consider such expedients as bimetallism. M. Laval, thrifty butcher's son, is congenitally opposed to mixing silver with gold, likes his gold straight. President Hoover, onetime mining engineer, feels the same...
When he left Paris to visit President Hoover for reasons of high policy (see p. 11), Premier Pierre Laval of France had to think of Josette and of J. P. Morgan, also of the Press...