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...leafy Bois de Boulogne, there motored out last week from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen had an air so sly as that of Minister of Justice...
...representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank you and all the citizens of the wonderful country on the other side of the water most heartily for the nice, kind reception you gave our Crown Prince and Crown Princess last year [TIME, June 7, 1926]. Sweden will never forget that...
...Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his wife, who were in the Stockholm Concert Hall listened with obvious pleasure. King Gustaf, also there, applauded vigorously...
...ninth, the tenth. Then she was women's singles champion at Wimbledon-and, by popular consent, women's singles champion of the world. Not since Miss May Sutton (now Mrs. Bundy) won at Wimbledon, 20 years ago, has a U. S. woman worn this supreme tennis crown...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...