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Thirty-two new decree-laws, the most drastic in France since the War, were issued last week by Premier Edouard Daladier, explained over the radio by their author, new Finance Minister Paul Reynaud...
...tell you without concealment and without evasion that it is a question of saving the country," said small, intense, terrier-like M. Reynaud. He explained that even if all Frenchmen now unemployed suddenly went back to work, this would raise industrial production in France only some 7%. According to M. Reynaud, it "must" be shot up 30 to 40% for "adequate" economic and military Rearmament...
This he proposed to get by forcing backward French employers to run their factories longer hours, which means forcing French workmen to work up to 50 hours per week in some cases, and M. Reynaud's decrees provided stern penalties for recalcitrant employers, employes, and for "agitators" fines, jail...
...Marchandeau measures gave evidence of being broadly unpopular, so last week Premier Daladier abruptly threw the whole program out. He invited Paul Marchandeau to hand the Ministry of Finance over to Paul Reynaud and take M. Reynaud's Ministry of Justice. This was quickly done with no Cabinet crisis. After the swap new Finance Minister Reynaud announced he would not answer his telephone for five days, promised by then to have drawn up a new financial program. This was expected to be "orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic...
Paradoxically, two of the most uncompromisingly anti-Communist members of the new French Cabinet, Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel, were for immediate resumption of those cordial French relations with Joseph Stalin personally which were never so close as when the Premier of France was Conservative Pierre Laval, one of the few foreign statesmen ever entertained by the Kremlin Dictator. With a view to aiding France to gain strength as fast as possible in rivalry with Italy and Germany, the assistance of the World's No. 1 Communist is again wanted by Paris...