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...Baruch, wisest of Democrats, famed director of the War Finance Corp., breakfasted and talked so long about world financial affairs that the President was two hours late getting to his office, thereby missing Secretary Mellon who had called. The late Senator Morrow in Washington to discuss details of Premier Laval's visit, called before Secretary Mellon got back. Among the Rapidan guests were: Board Chairman Julius Barnes of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Chairman W. Kingsland Macy of New York State's Republican Committee; Charles J. Hatburf, Philadelphia lawyer; Mark Requa, California oilman; Mark Sullivan, the President...
Impatient to handshake President Herbert Hoover, Premier Pierre Laval last week shoved ahead two days the sailing date of the French Line ship that will carry him, 5. S. lie de France. Promptly in several hundred European hotels other passengers booked on the lie de France seized the usual ink-clogged pens, dipped them furiously into the familiar purple fluid, scratched and splattered torrents of protest...
...second thought, M. Laval saw that even in the name of Goodwill he must not tear tourists two days early from their Paris, must let them have their last rounds of champagne cocktails, buy their last svelte gowns, paste jewels, guaranteed antiques and copies of My Life & Loves by Frank Harris. The He de France, it was hastily announced, will keep to her original sailing date, Oct. 16. President Hoover will wait...
With Great Britain off the gold standard, the U. S. and France are the world's bankers. Economically, therefore, Premier Pierre Laval and President Herbert Clark Hoover are the world's two key men. Last week they made plans to meet in Washington the latter part of this month. To the international Press went most of the credit for the Laval-Hoover meeting. Fortnight ago in Paris, on the eve of Premier Laval's departure for Berlin (see p. 19), it was reported that M. Laval "was considering an American trip." Apparently this report was purest fiction...
...goodwill visit of Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to Berlin-first official German visit of any French statesmen since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives...