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Premier Blum on his Cabinet's front bench grew visibly more and more nervous as the proletariat-pampering section of the bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
...must play devaluation-which is France's last card-and we must play it well!" cried Deputy Reynaud,( attacking the Communist's pet clause. "Is France going to be the only country in the world in which devaluation fails to promote a return to Prosperity...
With scowls spreading on Communist faces, Premier Blum finally reached for a scrap of paper, wrote on it that his Cabinet would drop the proletariat-pampering clause, and passed it to M. Reynaud There was much bouncing of the bill back and forth between Chamber and Senate but the final result was straight defeat of the Communists and refusal by Parliament to place in Socialist Blum's hands any wide financial powers. His prestige suffered sorely. Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered...
Dinner will be served in the Eliot House dining room at a charge of $2.50. Dean Wallace B. Donham will preside at a smoker following dinner. Speeches will be by Dr. Douglas Copland on "Economic Policy in a Depression," and Honorable Paul Reynaud on "Recent European Financial Development...
...Reynaud the Tiger's Cub attacked the chief eulogist in France of Britain. The better to be able to eulogize, M. Reynaud went to London and sat in the House of Commons gallery while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made Sir Samuel Hoare a scapegoat (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this trans-Channel junket seemed likely to blast many of M. Reynaud's political ambitions. As he went down under the Tiger's Cub, millions of Frenchmen pondered with care the exposition of the Ethiopian Question given by André Tardieu. Excerpt...