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Marriage Revealed. Paul Reynaud, 71, onetime Premier of France (March to June, 1940), leader of the right-wing Independent Republican Party in the National Assembly; and Christiane Mabire, 36, his secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Versailles...
Last week, the committee of five met in M. Herriot's salon to see whether they could get to a compromise. The French were represented by tough little ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and by vague old Leon Blum. Horse-faced Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed the British delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing...
...remarked that there did not seem anything to do except refer the controversy back to the Western Foreign Ministers, who will meet in London this week. Herriot's callers were escorted to the door by five ushers in evening dress. As the delegates got into their cars, Paul Reynaud told a British journalist that on this issue Britain appeared en mauvaise posture. "Yes," the Briton translated freely, "we are on a bad wicket...
...Reynaud, whose English does not encompass the playing fields of Eton, gave the Briton a blank stare and rode...
...Radical Socialist, Dr. Queuille is small (5 ft. 4 in.), slight, and endowed with a mouselike talent for making himself inconspicuous. Last week he ordered the members of his cabinet not to leave Paris for two months, in view of the financial emergency. His program stuck close to the Reynaud plan, which had caused the Socialists to upset the last two governments. Fear of Charles de Gaulle was making the Socialists meeker...