M. Pierre Laval, a former Premier who has been playing an increasingly important part in French politics lately, particularly during the recent Senate debate on Finnish affairs, would probably be given a Cabinet post, according to diplomatic quarters here, The conversation M, Edouard Daladier had yesterday morning with President Albert Lebrun confirms the impression that a Cabinet reshuffle is being considered.
Political circles categorically deny the report that relations between France and Italy are taking a new turn, and the rumours that M. Daladier is to meet Il Duce soon.
Senator Laval was one of the signatories of the Franco-Italian Treaty of Friendship of January 7, 1935, whereby Italy obtained a strip of territory along the South Tunisian border and a number of shares in the French-owned Jibuti-Addis-Ababa railway Hava:
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