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...fresh vote of confidence in the Chamber, 457 to 120, defeating a Socialist motion to take away from Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the treasured "secret funds" of the Quai d'Orsay, traditionally used to sweeten the French Press. In effect the Chamber thus endorsed a double-barreled speech by M. Laval last week in which he fired blandishments and menaces at Adolf Hitler: "We shall ask of other countries that they assure conjointly with us a police mission for the eventual re-establishment of order. . . . Chancellor Hitler affirms his wish for peace. We ask him by associating in the policy...
...From the Quai d'Orsay to the Place des Invalides the street lamps were on, shining wanly through black shrouds of crepe. As if to make up for official negligence that may have cost the old gentleman his life, the entire distance was lined with steel-helmeted soldiers, elbow to elbow. Six feet behind this first line was a second line of Republican Guards, with a row of plainclothes detectives stationed between the two. Thus last week did France bury her great Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou. All the diplomats who stood bareheaded under the grey sky, all the regiments...
...bullet struck him in the neck. But no complete view of an assassination-before, during & after the act -was ever caught by the camera lens until last fortnight at Marseilles. The heroes were the newsreels. The stage could not have been set more neatly. Press agents for the Quai d'Orsay, eager that the visit of King Alexander to France get wide publicity, gave the cameramen carte blanche. Eight U. S. and European newsreel crews, some with sound trucks, were allowed to swarm so close to the King and French Foreign Minister Barthou that an intruder would never have...
...would indicate that she intends to treat it as a fait accompli. France, like the other powers, is not without Chinese interests, in Yunnan, as well as in Indo-China, and any undue increase in Japanese influence could only cause in Japanese influence could only cause uneasiness at the Quai d'Orsay...
Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...