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Last week, Private Fowler's regiment, the Tenth British Hussars, sent ?100 ($486) to Mme. Belmont-Gobert, found to be in actual want. When news of this gift reached Paris, the HONOR OF FRANCE was invoked by War Minister Paul Painlevé who demanded in the Chamber that further British gifts be made unnecessary by the granting of a pension to Dame Belmont-Gobert...
That great, gentle mathematician War Minister Paul Painlevé asked a favor last week of his good friend Joseph Paul-Boncour, leader of the Right Wing Socialists, outstanding pacifist, fervent champion of the League of Nations before which he represented France in 1924-25. All that M. Painlevé asked of M. Paul-Boncour was that he would introduce and sponsor in the Chamber a bill proposing to spend 7,000,000 francs ($280,000) forthwith on armaments to protect the frontiers of France...
...Minister Painlevé said: "The Mass Mobilization Bill only insures daily collaboration between the economic and military defenders of France. . . . No effort should be spared to avoid the cataclysm which, the next time, would wipe out entire populations, without distinction to age or sex. Any statesman who does not dwell on these thoughts is not worthy of public trust...
...senses. The Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré (TIME, Aug. 9) has achieved what was possible to no single faction. A period of uneventful balloting upon the hundreds of clauses in the budget loomed. As an urgent prelude there were introduced before the Chamber last week War Minister Painlevé's "economy bills" cutting the French Army from...
...everyone knows, former French Premiers Briand, Caillaux, Painlevé and Herriot, pacifists all, have consistently supported all International Democratic Peace Conferences...