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This week elegantly-tailored Premier Flandin crosses the English Channel with his messy-looking, franc-pinching Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, who wears white wash ties even in the dead of winter. Once again it seemed probable that weary old Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would be cheered and heartened by the dynamic young Frenchman. The last time Flandin and MacDonald made a night of it in London (TIME, April 18, 1932) the Scot said afterward, "Conversation was free and easy-a sort of smoker which was in no sense a Quaker meeting!" That was apropos of the Danube Conference, which...
...bridge means uninterrupted railway communication between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...
...there has been one thing that Adolf Hitler thought he could count on, it has been the refusal of the British Government to send troops across the Channel to enforce order during the Saar plebiscite Jan. 13. Not only has the House of Commons been assured time & again by Foreign Minister Sir John Simon that no troops would be sent, but the entire British Press has been clamoring against the dispatch of a single Tommy overseas. Last week England, the inexplicable, the illogical and the impulsive, proved herself England once again...
...readers about one of his youthful exploits. As soon as he says, "I can tell you about the 'Gry' better than most people," he keeps his audience in a close and absorbing relationship until he and his companion, Teniento Bronnay, pilot their prize safely beyond the rocky, unused channel of Santa Barbara harbor...
What story there is to this slim, slight comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl...