3-023-599 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Pierre Laval, the French Premier, in an Open Top Car Driving Though the Crowded Streets, 1932. The Crowds Giving a Warm Reception With Lots of Flags and Confetti. 'Pierre Laval visits New York. If any have doubts as to the aims and intentions of a wily European politician, they don't show them at New York's civic reception. In the United States, hospitality is the watch-word, the maxim'. From "Time To Remember - Around the Corner", 1932 (Reel 1); diary of events in 1932 in the United States of America - Franklin Roosevelt becomes the President.