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...make Mohandas K. Gandhi Man of 1930. He was in jail when his selection was announced in TIME-for launching civil disobedience to get the British out of India. Next year was "a lean year for everybody," as old Ramsay MacDonald put it: Man of 1931 was Pierre Laval, picked for having steered France prosperously through 12 months which had meant breadlines in almost every other land (Laval hasn't had a good year since...
...associated with an organization which called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
Then the man who had co-authored the Hoare-Laval deal, who had served Appeasers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain 1) praised the British-Soviet and Franco-Soviet 20-year treaties; 2) suggested that they be supplemented by air defense agreements; 3) proposed that the United Nations should agree to a bill of rights providing for religious freedom and forbidding imprisonment without trial...
French Composer Darius Milhaud answered unequivocally: "I don't see why artists should not be treated as ordinary citizens. Jacques Benoist-Mechin is a composer who has written a few works in which you may find a certain gift. He was a minister in the Laval cabinet. Now he is arrested, accused as a traitor, a German spy. I hope he will be shot...
Stalin might also propose a Russo-French pact patterned after the Russo-Czechoslovak agreement or the Russo-French (Stalin-Laval) mutual assistance treaty of 1935. General de Gaulle might well hold out for something bigger. He is known to favor a modern version of the Triple Entente (1907-1917) that bound Tsarist Russia with France and Britain. France might again become the link between Russia and Britain...