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The Foreign Minister and the Minister of Justice sat anxiously one on either side of the invalid chair of the Prime Minister. He must not resign, they pleaded; anything but that. They realized that a gastric disorder gripped him, that he must soon go under the surgeon's knife, but would he not consent to remain titular head of the "Cabinet of National Union?" They needed his prestige. France needed it at the coming political Reparations Conference (see p. 21). He could rest, recuper- ate, and they...
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