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Your story about New Frontier nip-ups, and President Roosevelt's requirements for unlucky foreign diplomats [Feb. 15], brought to mind William Roscoe Thayer's account of the dispatch that the new French Ambassador M. Jusserand sent to Paris soon after his arrival in this country during Roosevelt's term of office...
...Maurice Couve de Murville is the youngest French ambassador to come to the U.S. since the late famed Jules Jusserand arrived in 1902. He is also a brilliant diplomat and a candid analyst of his country's political ailments. Last week, in a Manhattan speech, Ambassador Couve de Murville expressed some bluntly realistic thoughts...
...version of swimming in the river ... as Jules Jusserand used to tell it, the story of his two-piece bathing suit-consisting of a pair of kid gloves-was more informing. The swimming party was a quartette composed of "The Tennis Cabinet...
...Jusserand, at that time French ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador, and George Von L. Meyer, Secretary of War ... As the agenda for the day was to include rock climbing, which in the past had done damage to his sensitive scholar's hands, Jusserand had decided to wear gloves. When the quartette was nuded . . . he couldn't get them off. They were stuck on by his blood. He was proud to recall that when the President himself shouted through his teeth, "Mr. Ambassador, why your gloves?" he was inspired to reply, "I thought we might meet ladies...
...boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which sometimes involved swimming Rock Creek or the Potomac River. "If we swam the Potomac," T.R. recalled in his autobiography, "we usually took off our clothes. I remember one such occasion when the French ambassador, Jusserand . . . was along, and, just as we were about to get in to swim, somebody said, 'Mr. Ambassador, Mr. Ambassador, you haven't taken off your gloves,' to which he promptly responded, 'I think I will leave them on; we might meet ladies...