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Supple, ambitious Louis Frossard has been a Socialist, a Communist, then got a Cabinet job under Rightist Premier Pierre ("The Deal") Laval, today owns a newspaper called La Justice. Virtually every Paris paper reported he had taken as his office the Continental's super-ornate "Imperial Suite," in which lived for 30 years Eugenie, last Empress of the French -and after Eugenie, none except royal or titled guests until an exception was made for Admiral Byrd-but M. Frossard insisted he had not moved into Eugenie's rooms "because memories would stop me from sleeping." The onetime Communist...
Sparkling José Comtesse de Chambrun, daughter of onetime Premier Pierre Laval, was still more typical of the average French wartime wives, thousands of whom have taken over their husbands' businesses as well as their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...
...conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...
Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
...appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel's big try at appeasement came in 1935, when with French Premier Pierre Laval, he arranged a deal to give Benito Mussolini a big chunk of Ethiopia. He had to resign because of public indignation, but soon found another Cabinet job. That the Prime Minister's indignation at Adolf Hitler may be only temporary was hinted at last week when Mr. Chamberlain took...