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Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand emerged from a cabinet meeting in the Elysée Palace last week in high good humor. A little knot of passersby, a few photographers were waiting for them. The pockets of the Prime Minister's neat blue suit bulged with strange objects. While shutters clicked there were impolite but audible comments on what was in them. A mousetrap? Fromage de Brie? Fishhooks...
...Laval laughed aloud. The little crowd raised the ancient war cry of three French armies, "A Berlin! A Berlin...
...France wanted to know what was in the Premier's pockets. It was not enough for them that Mm. Laval and Briand were about to make an historic gesture, that they were about to pay the first official visit to Germany that any leading French statesman has made since Napoleon. They wanted to know what good it would do. What would they talk about when they got there? When Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius paid their visit to Paris two months ago (TIME, July 27) the world Press felt that the mere fact that German statesmen...
...Another development unheralded but of great significance, is the initiation of joint study, by Germans and officials of the Centre, of fields of industry in which the two nations can cooperate: in the railroad, coal, and chemical industries, for example. Premier Laval is wisely encouraging this work. The cordial reception of Bruening and Curtius in Paris, and the pending visit of Laval to Berlin, show that both countries are approaching the political crisis in a sane spirit...
There were cheers. Word had just been published that Brer Briand and Premier Laval had finally made up their minds to visit Berlin on Sept. 27 and 28, first visit of leading French statesmen to the German capital since Napoleon entered the city 125 years ago as commander of the French army...