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Pierre Laval
Dell, Robert | October 28, 1931 issue

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The article presents a character sketch of French Prime Minister Pierre Laval. He is an Auvergnat, a barrister and an ex-Socialist, which is to say that he has all the qualifications for success in French politics. In France socialism, like journalism, "mène à tout, à condition d'en sortir." Nearly all the leading French politicians are barristers or journalists or both and Laval has been a bit of a journalist too in his time. Laval, who became Prime Minister last January, was forty-eight in June, one of the two youngest Prime Ministers that France has had in the present century; Briand was the same age-forty-seven-when he became Prime Minister for the first time in 1909.

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LAVAL, Pierre; PRIME ministers; CHARACTERS & characteristics; JOURNALISTS; LAWYERS; FRANCE
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