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...really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer of the Bank of France and Director Robert Lacour-Gayet...
...study President Hoover's financial proposals" and generally pave the way for Premier Laval...
...suite close to Premier Laval's will sail a handsome Romanov sure to be feted this winter by smartest U. S. hostesses, H. I. H. Dmitri, Grand Duke of Russia, on his first prospecting visit...
Buzzing about the French Premier as he prepared to sail was Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Hymans. He was said to be urging M. Laval to listen sympathetically when Mr. Hoover asks France to join in a worldwide economy program of lessened armaments. This, from the French point of view, is a "sacrifice of security" which few Frenchmen are prepared to make. But Belgium, less militaristic than France, is anxious to economize on cannon...
...part of his preparations M. Laval decided to sound out the British Government. He invited to Paris the great Lord Reading, special Envoy to the U. S. in 1917, today British Foreign Secretary. London papers pictured Lord Reading as about to make two points to M. Laval: 1) that Britain stands with the U. S. in favor of armament cuts; 2) that Britain still urgently desires the International Fiscal Conference proposed some time ago by Philip Snowden, hopes that M. Laval will discuss it with Mr. Hoover...