FRANCE: Herriot a Mother

Men as fat as Premier Edouard Herriot can see the brighter side of things more easily than men as thin as Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England (see col. 1).

"I feel," chuckled M. Herriot at a reception in Paris last week, "like a woman with twins—Disarmament and the Budget!

"Sometimes I wonder," continued bantering Herriot, "which of them is going to die or whether it will be both or whether it will be me! "

Ah, Messieurs, I am too much of a philosopher to worry about the possibility of...

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