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...revelation that Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Finance, had been and was believed still to be counsel for Aeropostale. No one questioned M. Flan-din's honor; but with the Chamber already embattled, the fact of his association made Aeropostale an admirable target for the opponents of Premier Laval. One of the accusations was that Flandin was "trying to maneuver" the Government into taking financial responsibility for Aeropostale. Finally the Government voted to participate as a shareholder (probably between 25% and 33%) of the Company...
Attempts last week to interpellate Prime Minister Laval's Government about the loan brought a smash vote. By an overwhelming majority of 555 to 11 the Government's action in furthering the loan was barred from debate. Never was there better proof of the power of wealth...
There is little accounting for the Chamber of Deputies. The same Chamber that cut Prime Minister Tardieu's majority to seven, that gave Prime Minister Steeg a majority of ten and then booted him out, suddenly softened last week toward the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Laval, a man no bigger than either of his predecessors. To Prime Minister Laval the Chamber gave a handsome working majority of 54 on his first test vote, a vote that seemed to promise continuation of the Laval cabinet perhaps until after the presidential elections...
Experts saw back of this sizable vote the glittering pince-nez of André Tardieu, antepenultimate Prime Minister. Pierre Laval, son of a provincial butcher, once a hot Socialist but now leaning more and more to the Right, is known to be a protégé of Tardieu, who seems unable or unwilling to form a ministry of his own at this time...
...once M. Aristide Briand, veteran foreign minister, was asked to form a cabinet but deferred in favor of a "young senator" sometimes called his protégé, 56-year-old Pierre Laval. The arrangement was made by telephone, for M. Briand was at Geneva. Returning to Paris he was met at the station by 200 politicians, all anxious to become ministers in the Laval cabinet...