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Gigantic, limping Andre Maginot, Minister of War, died last week of typhoid fever. Friends of indomitable old Aristide Briand were forced to admit that he was too sick a man to continue as Foreign Minister. The Cabinet of Pierre Laval tottered...
...Affairs.* In the Ministry of Agriculture-where occurred the Wheat Scandal that felled the Steeg Cabinet-is none other than kinetic André Tardieu himself. Sad-eyed Georges Leygues of the sweeping mustachios lost his post as Minister of Interior to the new Prime Minister. Gigantic, limping André Maginot, Tardieu's sabre-rattling Minister of War, held the same post again last week...
...year term of service, M. Maginot informs us, is far from having provided us with the expected increase in strength. . . . Before we can mobilize three classes of reserves we have only 180,000 young soldiers averaging ten months' service for the protection of 500 miles of frontier...
This was just what Minister Maginot was driving at. Motorization was not enough. He was ready last week to abandon universal military service, traditional in France since the 18th Century committee of public safety, for a Quality Army of paid volunteers on the German. British, U. S. model. Sententiously commented Perfumer Coty's Le Figaro: "The strength of the French Army is the best guarantee of the peace of Europe...
...Literally. Minister Maginot is not only a super-patriot but an expert swordsman...