Again, U. S. E.

Purring out of Paris a sleek car carried new French Premier Leon Blum last week to Geneva. There, while Sanctions are disposed of (see above), M. Blum proposed to lobby industriously in League corridors for creation of a United States of Europe. That France would make this move was announced to the Chamber in solemn terms last week by the Jewish Premier's obsequious Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Said he: "We shall ask for the convocation of the Commission of Study for a European Union that was created by Aristide Briand. This commission includes all European States, whether members of the League or not. Germany could therefore participate."

This was easily the most friendly overture toward Berlin made by Paris in many a year and Yvon Delbos, who carries in his body three German War bullets, made no secret that Jew Blum is in haste to patch peace with Nazi Hitler, knowing that at the first crack of war Blum's Socialist-Communist supporters in France would be overwhelmed by Frenchmen carrying not the red flag but the tricolor. "On different occasions Chancellor Hitler has proclaimed his wish for an understanding with France!" cried M. Delbos. "We do not for one moment intend to question the word of a former combatant who during four years experienced the misery of the trenches!"

Geneva observers, although mildly amazed, stirred with hope that from so paradoxical a situation something might come at last out of the late great Nobel Peaceman Aristide Briand's greatest vision: The United States of Europe (TIME, Sept. 16, 1929 et seq.).

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