Evening star., 1934-12-02

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countries in the world where the
Roosevelt New Deal has created more
interest and more comment than In
France. French newspapers, which
until the 1882 election were contented
to print a few dispatches from the
United States, mostly about gangsters
and prohibition, give now as much
space to this country as to Germany,
Italy and Great Britain.
Until tuo years ago they ,uere
Serued by the te,D dispatches OF a
French ne,Us agency Which tDds
copering pertunctorily Washington
and Neu York, Nth one man in
each city. Now that agency has
staff OF about IS men and most OF
the leading newspapers haze spe-
cidI correspondents either pernd-
nently in this country or on an er-
tensiue tour of investigation. The
Ne10 Deal appeals to these papers.
Doumergue fell because he based
his administration on political issue
the revision Of the French constitu-
ton. Let's go to Versailles" he de-
manded, land change this old consti-
tuition, which answers no longer its
purpose" The changing of the con-
stitution meant the pulling OF the
teeth of the members Of the chamber.
And Doumergue was overthrown be-
fore he could say Jack Robins.
Flandin is careful about playing
with fire and bases his program on
the improvement of economic condl-
tions in France. "Once the country
is under lesser economic strain
politics will take care OF themselves.
Hunger breeds revolutions, hence
hunger must be avoided
Fundamentally his ideas are not
similar to those of Mr.. Roosevelt,
inasmuch as he believes that there
has been already too much govern
mental interference with business since
the war. But as temporary measure,
in order to start the wheels OF the
economic machinery running again he
proposes to intensity the governmental
intervention in business.
He agrees with Mr.. Cordell Hull that
"the world will be saved by economic
liberalism such as breaking down tariff
barriers and the other distractions
to international trade" But there
again, he thinks that this liberalism
must come gradually because 1.-The
sudden change from drastic limita-
tions based on economic and political
nationalism to a regime of intense
freedom would be a remedy worse
than the present ills" Consequently
he proposes to enforce the quota sys-
TENS and the high tariffs still more
drastically than his predecessors, be-
fore he can break them down alto
gether.
The main thing he intends to
take from the American NeD Deal
is direct support for the unem-
ployed, an ertensiUe housing pro-
gram (Uith bath rooms in every
cottage) and still more eItensiue
public iDorks program.
How the French will like this idea
of spending above the income of the
state is a question which the French
Parliament will have to decide upon.
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Mussolini and the Hungarians are
showing the liking for each other by
exchanging presents.
Some time ago II Duce presented
the Hungarian government with an
airplane appropriately named Jus
tice for Hungary" This present
caused as much sensation in Central
Europe as the famous shipping Of
agricultural implements" from Milan
to Budapest in 1926, when it was
discovered at the Czechoslovakian
frontier that the huge boxes actually
Army.
Since Admiral Horty and his gov
ernment could not offer Italy a similar
present, it was decided to give Musso-
lini personal gift.
Since II Duce plays the fiddle in his
leisure moments, the Hungarian gov
ernment ordered violin from Hun
gary's outstanding violin maker, Jo-
seph Hindy. The violin which took
Hindy II months to make is called
"Opus 50," being the fiftieth instru-
ment the Hungarian manufacturer
has made in his long career.
The merchant marine has become as
important an arm for future warfare
as the navy. All the maritime powers,
with the exception of the United
States, are at present busy increasing
the number and the size of their
commercial ships.
The British have built a super liner,
Queen Mary, with displacement of
some $4,000 tons. Another similar
liner will be put on the slips in the
course of the next year.
The French are building the Nor
mandie, few thousand tons larger
than the Queen Mary, while the
Italians and the Germans have the