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...Paris the heart of Aristide Briand, Europe's Great Pacifier, failed last week. A few days before what would have been his 70th birthday he died in his small bachelor home. He had been eleven times Premier of France. Called the Master Parliamentarian of Europe, he was also Europe's foremost orator. To the very end, his famed "cello voice" could rouse the French Chamber or Senate to tempests and transports of emotion?but he knew to a nicety how few were his friends...
...world issue of Reparations v. private debts will be thrashed out by committees of bankers soon to meet at Basle and Berlin (TIME, Nov. 30) and ultimately no doubt by a conference of statesmen. Meanwhile, with Aristide Briand, "The Master Parliamentarian of Europe," biding his time, Pierre Laval enjoyed his triumph and explained to the cheering Chamber his more subtle achievements while visiting President Hoover...
...signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...
...Briand, famed "Master Parliamentarian of Europe," knew well enough that what Mr. Stimson had called "all the pressure and authority" of the League is not enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...
...rang up the U. S. Consulate at Geneva. Ruminating over the radio telephone with Consul General Prentiss Gilbert, he authorized him to attend Council sessions on the Sino-Japanese crisis, if invited. That was enough for the Master Parliamentarian...