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...post-war years Laval was variously a Socialist, Communist (for a few days), and numerous shades of rightist. Running this gamut he became a past master of French political intrigue, served as Foreign Minister and in other posts with several Cabinets. He also began to make big money as a corporation lawyer and super-fixer. Said he: "I don't like to work amongst files and documents. Give me the human element...
...Wednesday (or Saturday)-lunch at Madame Tabouis' house.' " Actors, poets, writers also came. Once the conversation was about Royalist Writer Léon Daudet's unforgettable nicknames for people he did not like. He called New Dealish Léon Blum "the Circumcized Hermaphrodite." A bewhiskered Rightist deputy was "our most Distinguished Burper." Foreign Minister Boncour was "the Don Juan of the Washrooms." Author Tabouis herself became "Madame Tata, the Clairvoyant...
...while it looked as if Chile's Presidential election this week would be close. Arrogant, handsome General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, once his nation's "strong man," was backed by the rightist Conservative and Liberal Parties, the small but noisy pro-Nazi Popular Socialist Vanguard. Smooth, greying Juan Antonio Rios, veteran Radical Party politico, was backed by the middle-to-left Popular Front, fast recovering from its sickness following the death of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last November...
...Once (1927-31) a "strong man" President of his country, General Ibáñez was exiled, has been trying to make a political comeback since 1937. He entered the campaign as an independent, played his cards so shrewdly that he got the backing of both the old-line rightist parties (Liberals and Conservatives). Though he is also backed by Chile's pee-wee Nazi party, General Ibáñez claims he is no totalitarian, merely a strong nationalist...
...Jorge González von Marées, who had changed the name of his Nacistas to the Popular Socialist Vanguard and who had attained the dignity of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Only a word from González was needed to set off another Rightist revolt...