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...Premier, revealed again the peace depths in French hearts. Pierre Laval loomed last week as the right Premier to save the franc and France because he has built himself up in the eyes of all Frenchmen by ceaseless peace efforts as French Foreign Minister. These climaxed in the Stresa Pact and his visit to Moscow (TIME, May 27). M. Laval's manner of achieving power as Premier, for the third time, all French politicians agreed last week, was characteristically peasant-shrewd...
...help Councilmen make up their minds, Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Minister, made the speech he would have made at Stresa had Russia been invited to that Conference (TIME, April...
...Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
Since the Stresa Conference decided that Germany has been naughty but is not to be spanked (see p. 19), new French Premier Flandin was in a quandary when the League Council met this week. France could scarcely get back to birch-talk after Stresa, but she could and did lay on the Council table a stinging memorandum back-dated "Paris, April 9." She had hoped Britain would be willing, as Italy was, to send this stinger to the League with the full weight of Stresa's Big Three. Instead, France, with only the moral support of expressed British...
...power in British politics is stern, hawk-featured Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the House of Commons received him and his 1935-36 budget with cheers this week after his un-English hamstringing of the Prime Minister and Sir John Simon while they were away at Stresa...