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This created a snarl which most Paris commentators considered impossible of disentanglement by Pierre Laval. It appeared that after years of spiteful and ill-tempered intrigue "Edouard II" Daladier had gained at least a temporary whip hand against "Edouard I" Herriot, and that when Premier Laval returns this week from Geneva, where he is wrestling with the octopus-like Ethiopian Question, he will face the most disastrous French political muddle of his long and dexterous career.