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...under Marcel Cachin. White-tied Laval disliked Communism and was disgusted at the growing conservatism of the other old-line Socialists. He broke away from the party altogether and has remained a complete independent. What political allegiance he owes is to that wily old Pacifist Aristide Briand. Before his Premiership, he flashed twice in the news. As Minister of Labor in the second Tardieu Government he put through the Social Insurance Act, France's employer's liability law. It was Pierre Laval, too, who authorized the use of typewriters in France's antiquated Department of Justice...
...when he unexpectedly won a seat in the Legislature from the stanch Liberal division of Sainte-Marie, Montreal. Since then he has shot from post to post, winning not only the mayoralty of Montreal but the leadership of the Conservative Party in the province. In his drive for the Premiership he has stumped Quebec all summer hurling accusations of gross extravagance at Premier Taschereau, blaming the Liberals for everything from unemployment to an attempt to assassinate him, Camillien Houde. He had one cureall: Government loans at 2% to Quebec farmers. Canadians flocked to listen to him. Impressed editors prophesied that...
...expenditures had to be constantly checked by his more businesslike brother (now Viscount Rother-mere). Fyfe thinks Northcliffe made a mistake when he twice refused Lloyd George's offer of a cabinet post, thinks Northcliffe realized it too late when he saw there was no chance of getting the Premiership, thinks the disappointment may have helped addle Northcliffe's brains...
...King Alexander decides that, for the first time, he will call to the Premiership a statesman outstanding in the ranks of the "minority peoples" who cluster around the parent kingdom of Serbia.* His Majesty, not without guile, calls to the Premiership that fiery Croat, famed, boisterous, bibulous Stefan Raditch. The King, whose power is rooted in Serbia, knows that so erratic and frequently boozy a statesman will not lead the "minorities" into a commanding position...
...King Alexander offers the Premiership to "Uncle Ljuba" Davidovitch, but by this time the Opposition parties are so disorganized by M. Raditch's failure that canny Peasant Davidovitch refuses even to try to form a cabinet...