Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-24 | Page 4 | Lloyds Says Thumbs Down

LLOYDS SAYS THUMBS IBS DOWN I IT HAS always said famed British insurers rs would take any bet at its own odds Even a a long memory does to recall an occasion when it has turned down downa a customer seeking ey even n the most fantastic in in- until urance-until now The he gigantic enterprise says flatly it ivill not at any premium insure against th the fall of the thc ministry in rance ance through May J Fridays Priday's fresh outbreaks outbreaks' of and war veterans to show dissatisfaction tion with economy decrees of the government to reveal that the fires of revolt smothered ered early in February are Lloyds in all likelihood knows more about the undercurrent of affairs in the thc troubled lit lia than the news cables have disclosed The Thc rioters were met by thousands of police the Hotel de VilIe the city hall hail and as they tried to 10 mass along the de Rivoli The malcon were set on staging their mass demon in the thc principal boulevards and the ge gendarmes darmes were as set against t the e notion Civil service salary cuts cuts' and pensions were Jt the tha chief causes of the discontent Events which preceded the revolution of two months ago the r rumblings which have hac persisted since and Fridays Friday's bold venture in the he open are ony surface indications of seri sen OUK oua unrest Beneath are forces which must cause con concern ern not only in France but in all the outside world Close students of the couise of f affairs see fascism definitely in the picture for the n near ar future as t tle e result of the decline of the parliamentary system marked by the formatIon of the present gov gov- Many any view the entry of the Doll Dou m regime after the February disorders as the most significant development ill in French politics politic since the establishment of tl the e thirds ird republic after the thc overthrow of Napoleon ill III in 1870 Looking upon the present temper of the French it seems not improbable that soI soni i lort of modern form of vigorous personal gov go J may evolve e out of the present p po situation This for France would hark back tp to the violence and social reaction ofu of 1850 u the iron rule of Prince Louis Bona Bona- e parte The difference would hc be that in the event of such upheaval ith the thc monumental military and civil forces of the conservatives ves the fate of the republic doubtless would he be determined speedily Paris streets would become be- be conic come rivers of blood One doubLe what sort of solidarity among the French could come out of this and if a a. government maintained by might could long endure without termite like destruction going on Oil below the surface Just now the thc names of Chiapa and ancl figure as prime causes of un- un rest When later historians write of these turbulent days they the will doubtless record names and vents events which are more remote cause causes with graver implications Government in Prance France has tried to remain too steadfast to old traditions It has not leco recognized changing chang chang- in ing conditions rand and therefore lias made no attempt to keep step with moving t times mes Lloyds rem remember em bel doesn't do business s on a a. guesswork bass basis It knows what most of the world does not know about what is going on among the masses in Prance France