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Dapper little Lawyer Paul Reynaud, 61, "Mickey Mouse" to French voters, is the most widely traveled of French statesmen. He is the only one of them who has both run a chain of department stores in Mexico and been successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Reynaud, like many another European politico, believes that international economic collaboration, especially between Britain and France, is the only possible basis for a lasting peace when World War II is over. But Finance Minister Reynaud had come to talk about fighting the war before liquidating it, and in his conversations with Sir John Simon he got what he wanted...
...program, and on specific features of it, so significant that they made the week's biggest war news. After they were through talking, the Allied Supreme War Council, headed by each country's chief of State and chief of war, held a meeting to ratify the Simon-Reynaud agreements. Within three months, warring Britain and France had reached greater financial and trade solidarity than they reached in three years last time. * Gone was any German hope of splitting the Allies asunder...
Finance: Paul Reynaud...
...some time he has been the brains behind France's Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, in his effort to stop the flow of gold from France to the U. S. In the process, Mannheimer's health broke, his weight dropping from 264 to 143 Ibs. But Paul Reynaud was grateful, served as best man when, only eight weeks ago, the dying financier surprised everyone by marrying a tall, dark, 21-year-old Brazilian girl named Marie Antoinette Reiss. The marriage was as doomed as Fritz Mannheimer's bank. The groom had a heart attack during the ceremony...