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...quite calmly asserted that Sir Robert Kindersley was in Paris to borrow money, and preached a little sermon to French voters blaming Great Britain's money troubles entirely on the "reckless spending" of the Labor Government. They hinted that this was what might happen to France if the Laval cabinet should fall and a government of the Left should take power...
Plaisanterie. Of Germany's outstanding short-term loans, about 60% are held in the U. S., about 30% in Britain, only 5% in France. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, made an ingenuous attempt to persuade France to take over a larger proportion than this. Premier Laval could scarcely believe his ears...
Before returning to Paris Premier Laval explained himself to the Press...
...Premier Laval let it be understood that some time soon he would go to Berlin and continue with Chancellor Bruning the brotherly conversations by which they hope to speed "political and moral evolutions," draw France and Germany together. Meantime, things happened which strengthened M. Laval's new financial mastery even more...
...possible the quiet bourgeois life he had known at home. A philosopher, Papa Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois; little Jacques, accidental son of a sleazy, sailor-loving woman; Father Hector, dilettante by nature, missionary by vocation. Once a year the boats from France came in, bringing letters and supplies from...