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Astounding, the news of these shouts spurred the German press to put forth special edition after special edition. Almost proven was the cynical theory that all Germans, from Friedrich the Great down, have nurtured a suppressed desire to be understood and warmly approved by choosey Frenchmen...
...number of Communists holding seats in the Chamber of Deputies was halved last week as Frenchmen balloted overwhelmingly for candidates favorable to Conservative Prime Minister Raymond Poincare...
...Europe. In Louisiana, near the Mississippi's mouth, there remains a section still racially pure and traditionally almost a country within a country, the Bayou Teche country of the French who fled from Grand Pré, Canada, in 1755. They are les Acadiens. Last week, like other distinguished Frenchmen before him, Ambassador Paul Claudel went there. "Vous êtes ici parmi les Français," a serious local dignitary told him. "Nos ancêstres sont fraçais, nos sentiments sont fraçais, notre religion est fraçais." It was so surprisingly true that the good...
...counted, last week, it was seen at first blush that not a single Communist had been returned and that the country had swung toward supporters of the Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, savior of the Franc. The second blush would come seven days later, when Frenchmen will vote again in those constituencies where no candidate obtained a majority last week...
...clock on the evening of April 11, the two Germans and the Irishman were bending over maps and weather reports. Twice before that day the weather news had disappointed them. Also, word had come from Paris that Frenchmen were tuning up rival planes. The Germans decided, Fitzmaurice rushed from the room, burst into the Officers' Mess at Baldonnel. "Crack goes the whip, off go the horses, and round go the wheels at 5 o'clock!" he shouted. The report just received from the British Air Ministry said that almost ideal conditions might be expected...