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This is the fourth of a series of Swiss cities. At these meetings led a cautious life, shifting be-

render will be felt articles bu the distinguished they discussed ways of bringing tween Socialism and Commun-

throughout the

in were

NearFrench dramatist, Henry Bern- the war to an end immediately. ism. His career as a lawyer de- stein, exited by the Vichy go- After the war of 1914 Paul Al-veloped. In 1921 he began to East, in Turkey, Pales- ernment.

lard, a journalist, published a draw closer to the moderate part- tine, Trans-Jordan and On October 9, 1934, King work entitled "Behind the Scenes les; he did it cleverly and soon Alexander 1 of Serbia, ally of the War, Revealed by the Sec-he was spoken of by them with the great desert to the and friend of

France, and ret Committees" (of the two great favour. He was minister south. Britain again has Louis Barthou, Minister

of houses of Parliament). This book for the first time in 1925. In a solid front. The Arabs Boumergue Cabinet.

Foreign Affairs

the cannot be found in France. The 1931 the President of the republic shot book-store editions were bought confided to M. Pierre Laval the have clearly rejected the and killed by a Macedonian ter- up; the library copies were re-task of forming the Cabinet. The ex-Socialist-fifteen years after Holy War the fanatical rorist. The era of violence

catastrophe had begun.

It contains the report of his speech to the secret com- Mufti of Jerusalem sought! The most important of all port-an extraordinary speech made mittce- became Prime Minister

in the secret and head of the to inflame, and both "he!folios is that of Foreign Affairs, by

Conservative and it was necessary to provide session of the Chamber of party. and the usurper Rashid immediately for a successor 10 Deputies on June 1, 1917. At the same time that he ac- Ali el Gailani

Barthou. Several candidates were That was the period of danger- quired power he acquired a large are fugi- suggested. Pierre Laval was ous mutinies in the army. From fortune. tives, repudiated by their chosen. It was learned that he

own people.

and moved.

had the full support of Marshal Petain, Minister of War,

Who is this notorious Laval For the first time in this whom Marshal Petain, in 1934, the Germans have and perhaps even earlier, made

his political associate? been compelled to flee The man has always been from an area into which cloaked in mystery and he is not

well known, even in France,

war

conflicts.

Laval

By Henry Bernstein

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This is a brief but accurate sketch of the career of the min- ister backed by Marshal Petain to take charge of foreign affairs in. October, 1934, that is, at a dark hour when internal strife was disrupting the country and when the German menace reap- peared on the border. they had penetrated. To-day Laval is fifty-eight

Marshal Petain has always Britain gains the inestim-years

old. He has a distinctly the Speaker's stand recom-spoken in the sharpest terms of alarming face and undeniable mended immediate

by French politicians, of their re- able gift of time, time to geniality. The calm and dignity threatening Parliament and the cantations and their corruption. consolidate her future de-of his manner, the affability of country indirectly with a military And among them all the one he

his greeting have facilitated fence of the Mosul oil career.

his uprising. In spite of his cautious chose as a partner was Pierre He has been successful in phrases this appeal to defeatism Laval. fields, time to throw the arbitrating political and social and revolt was interrupted sev- Mr. Laval was hardly a success small but efficient forces peared to be clairvoyant.

He has sometimes ap-eral times by indignant protests in 1931 as President of the Coun-

The from the majority of the Assem-cil. He was considered a failure THESE FACTS MAKE which took Damascus to agreement drawn up at Stresa in bly.

particularly in the field of foreign other fronts where they Italy

1935 among England, France and Mr. Laval's apparent object affairs. So the Senate overturn- seemed to many sensible was to obtain passports so thated his ministry, as soon as Briand are needed. It is not people a guaranty against the French representatives could go who, was a member of it, had

rise of Nazism. This attempt to a "so-called" international con- died. likely the Nazis will quit failed, as have all the expansive ference, like that at Kienthal, Those who were ill-informed their struggle for Iraq's political schemes of Laval. which was to take place in Stock-were, therefore, surprised when

Pierre Laval was born and grew holm. oil, but the short way is up in great poverty, which did

Doumergue chose him. in 1934 as To show Parliament the néces- Minister of Foreign Affairs, and now closed to them. The not crush him. He succeeded insity of letting the French ex-still more surprised at the strong precious fluid that seemed passing his examinations for the tremists go to Stockholm, and of support given him by Marshal

law, and in 1911 he opened a almost in their grasp is small law office for workmen at concluding as quickly as possible Petain. At this time the govern

Aubervilliers, an industrial cen-

a peace with Germany, Mr. Laval ment policy was strongly nation- snatched from their best tre near Paris. He gave con- read to the Deputies an incredible alistic, and Doumergue, who, had This important and initiated ministerial - broadcasts, report. point of attack.

sultations for 2 francs, which, at that time, would be about 40 strictly secret report had been issued warnings of the German cents. His popularity grew quick-made by Generalissimo Potain to danger every week to the country The terms of the armis- 1 and, in 1914, he was elected the Minister of War. It had been at large. Already, however, al- not tice undoubtedly give the Deputy from the Seine. In the written two days before and dis- though the accusation was

people doubted Laval's firmness-in regard to the British complete control Chamber of Deputies ho sat at Cussed the day before at the openly made,

Council-of-Ministers the extreme left of the Socialist

Generalissimb Petain had paint Nazis, of the country. The road party (Communism had not yet ed a dark picture of the lack of In principle, he was to con to the conquest of Arabia been invented).

discipline which was increasing in tinue the admirable work of his the ranks, and of the revolt of predecessor, Louis Barthou: With and the road to India is The war broke out. Laval be- whole battalions.

the passage of years blocked. Most important came one of the two or three How did this ultra-confidential clearly that he set to work at at the moment is that one "Klenthalians of the Chamber. report of Gen. Pethin's get into once to destroy it.

That was the name given to a the hands of Pierre Laval? No Barthou had planned an encir prong of the Nazi pincers group of extreme pacifists whose one, save for Mr. Laval and the element of Gerninny which would reaching for Suez is delegates met the representatives person or persons who gave it to have long delayed, if not pro-

of the German Socialist party at him, has ever known,

vented, the vast Hitlorian-de- smashed.

Kienthal and Zimmerwald, littleAfter the French victory, Laval (Continued on Page 10)

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