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With lean Colonel de la Rocque ordering the youths of the Croix de Feu to mobilize all over France in a series of ominous mass meetings, Newspundit Henri de Kerillis declared in L'Echo de Paris: "An order for mobilization against Italy, even a partial one, an act of war, even limited to a simple act of aggression toward Italy, would create in France a violent commotion of bloody, of desperate resistance and an atmosphere of civil...
...Paradoxical though it be," says Dr. Roback, "most of the major Jewish philosophers of the present day are not willing to own up to any Jewish influence." Henri Bergson stoutly denied that either his style or his ideas revealed any Semitic traits. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French. But the question, Dr. Roback thought, was not likely to be settled by comparing the work of known authors. He hit on the idea of trying to sort Jews from non-Jews in the writings of unknown persons. Accordingly he persuaded a colleague to let him have...
...pneumonia in Moscow early last month fell Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene. Bedded in the Hotel National, he slowly recovered. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow late last month fell French Novelist Henri Barbusse, soon died. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow last week fell Illinois' flower-tongued, silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis. In the suite below the one Merchant Filene had at the Hotel National, doctors called his condition "extremely critical," summoned medical supplies from Berlin and Paris...
...involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact, her shameless social climbing and her inability to speak...
...Died. Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...