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After the secret Government session at which this decision was taken Count Coreth, the official rapporteur, announced with apostolic zeal: "The Austrian people could no longer endure the injury done the Habsburgs in 1919 when they were deprived of their citizenship and property. Dollfuss, from his place in Heaven, will surely be glad to know that the Austrian Government is canceling this unjust...
...secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered to us in the event of war with Germany...
While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...
...French Chamber produced an international sensation, touched off screaming eight-column headlines such as RUSSIA OFFERS TROOPS TO FRANCE! Next day two-column heads began "France Denies . . ." but close observers noted that no actual denial was made of what Deputy Léon Archimbaud actually said. As Rapporteur of the Military Budget, M. Archimbaud is one of the five French civilians privileged to know the Army's secrets. His party is the Radical Socialist, largest in the Chamber. Deputies leaped to their feet with spontaneous cheers and War Minister General Maurin smiled grimly as Rapporteur Archimbaud reached the climax...
...background to the Simon-Mussolini talks, Italy's Chamber of Deputies was treated to a stirring speech by Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vascello, rapporteur of Italy's Naval budget. Crediting Italy with a 12% reduction of her naval expenditures for the coming year, the Marquis cried: "Elsewhere the vision of peace for which the world clamors is receding. . . . During the useless [Disarmament Conference] discussions at Geneva, the three major naval powers [U. S., Britain and Japan] worked to add new vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white...