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Cordon Sanitaire? Not since the late great Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau moved the Allies to draw a "sanitary cordon" around Germany and attempt the same with Bolshevik Russia, have such plans been made as are to go into effect this week to put a watchful ring around Spain on April...
...Warsaw last week everyone recalled that the Treaty of 1921, now revived and strengthened, was based on a Clemenceau conception of Russia as a politically infectious area around which should be drawn a "sanitary cordon." In Bucharest the immensely tall, Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents...
...Webb "because it made a better by-line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed Peace of Versailles, met Mussolini when he was still a fellow journalist...
...French Anarchist Emile Cottin improved an opportunity to shoot and wound Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, who died in 1929 with one of the bullets still in his lung. Anarchist Cottin, who was reprieved from losing his head on the guillotine by Victim Clemenceau, was announced in Barcelona to have been killed fighting the Whites last week on the Aragon front...
...children were early accustomed to famed people. One day Clemenceau came into their garden, said to Patience, " 'What is your name, little cauliflower?' And I said, 'Patience.' And he said 'Tiens, Tiens.' And then he said 'How is your papa called?' And I said 'Abbe.' So he said 'What a family.' " The children soon got their father's number. "Papa is a very poor business man, but he does no one any harm. He just doesn't understand about money." They remembered many a grownup remark...