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...German Republic has no war office but instead a "Ministry of Defense." Therefore French pacifists find it intolerable that France still has a "Ministry of War." Last week the situation was finally deemed so grave that War Minister Paul Painlevé sped out to Bourg and there proposed amid pacifist plaudits that his war office shall be re-named the "Ministry of Peace...
Furthermore, continued good M. Painlevé, the word war ought to be expunged from written or spoken utterance, during peace times, so that in a crisis the very mention of "WAR!!" would shock and arouse public opinion to combat the scourge...
...unrepentant imposture, although common enough, was not practised last week in Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
...choice morsels began to appear in noble plentitude, the eyes of the Statesmen-Gourmets were observed to glisten with anticipation. Minister of Agriculture Queuille commented favorably upon both the aroma and the taste of his consomm. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski forked rapidly both saucisses and saucissons. Meanwhile good M. Painlev had consumed a second and then a third portion of the truffled donkey's liver...
When toast time came, M. Painlev raised an approving, effervescent glass to his hosts: The National Horse Industry Association. Their chef had proved, he said, that even meats not generally esteemed could achieve a rare deliciousness. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski added the inspiring information as to how many pounds of horse, donkey and mule meat are annually consumed in France. Subsequent toasts to le cheval, Vane and le mulct were capped, of course, by the final and inevitable "A la Belle France...