Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-13

II dilIt anu tic aJIlttu Sldtts
into "a closer alliance" More
cheering.
LIE LIED, as usual. He came
H here for these reasons:
Ito get us TO cancel. or to
i scale down. the debt that
France owed US.
C-To get the II. S. A. to agree
q that Germany pay her rep
arations 10 France before France
paid anything more on her debt
TO the United States.
Die was working in the in
- terest of Germany primarily.
He knew that Germany. through
his own secret connivance. would
soon refuse 10 pay anything fur
Their to France.
h-When this happened. as II
II did, Laval's France stopped
paying US.
The Hearst. papers were the
only papers in the country that
knew what 'iouble-faced Laval
was up to- On Oct. 26, 1881, the
New York American said in a
first-page head:
Laval visit prepared way for
war debt cancellation"
On Nov. 81, 1891. a heading
in the same paper announces:
Laval insists PREPARATIONS be
paid first"
That was shrewd, knowing. as
he did. that Germany had no
intention Of paying France. or
anybody else, any more repara-
ton money.
AN EDITORIAL in the Hearst
"A papers of Oct. "a, 1881, en-
titled Ca mediation Is His Aim"
said:
"Tt Is debt-cancelIation which
brings NJ. Laval to America"
On Oct. 20, 1881, this clair
voyant editorial also appeared in
the Hearst papers under the cap
ton of Success of His Mission
Makes NJ. Laval Smile"
"Were we dependent for In
formation upon the cautious and
measured words employed In
the official announcement over
the joint signatures Of Presi-
dent Hoover and the French
premier, we might conclude that
the visit of VI. Laval was no
more than n pleasant social call
An agreeable gesture of amity
on the part Of France.
However there IL nothing
vague or indeterminate In what
VI. Laval accomplished In his
short stay I'm Washington.
..He merely reversed the posi-
ton Of the United States on the
subject OF disarmament.
GLE MERELY reversed the
III position of the United
states on the non-relation OF
German reparations to the debts
owed the United States by Eng
land, France, Italy. Belgium and
our other European debtors.
"He merely reversed the po-
sitIon of the United States on
our freedom from involvement or
participation In the Young plan.
Gle merely reversed the posi-
ton OF the United States on our
refusal, consistently maintained
ND TO this time, TO entertain any
proposal for the cancellation Of
the European debts.
That let the Laval cat out OF
the bag.
THIS subtle, scheming rogue
Il came here ostensibly to
spattle us with French politesse
and vows of eternal friendship.
But the Hearst papers did
some clever Laval smile-lifting
and exposed him as playing a
Franco-German game to skin us
out Of billions of dollars.
And Laval went back to
France with the God bless
yous" of official America while
the people who had cheered him
on his arrival here eyed the re-
ceding figure of that wormy
Statesman" with considerable
misgivings.
No further payments were
ever made on the foreign debt
by any nation except Finland,
Congress having voted mora
forum of a year on the recon-
mendation of President Hoover.
at whose lodge on the Kappa
hammock River Laval was enter
tanned. "Lavil's smile" cost the
United States of America just
S12, 900, 100000. ~ ~
Today, IL years aqerward, the
Franco-German peasant. Pierre
Laval, is at his same old tricks
trying TO sell Nazi Germany to
the world.