~A study of his actions and his words during the ten years before the outbreak of the present war show clearly the fascination which both Hitler and Mussolini had for him and his unmistakable share in the disaster which he is now seeking to exploit for his own personal aggrandisoment.
"in 1981 Laval, then Premier of France for the first time, had been the first French Premier to visit Ger-
jo same year he was the first since the Wer.
French Premier to go to America, where he conferred with President Hoover on French war debts. An illumizatng story is told of his al-Jegation that the American President had agreed to reduce the war debts im return for a reduction by France of German reparations, an allegation that was categorically denied by Hoover,
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