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...Chambre- ¶Was the scene of a typically exuberant riot amid which books and inkwells flew when Deputy Charles Hueber from Alsace-Lorraine attempted to speak for the first time in two years in the only language he can speak, and was howled down by the Communists because his "Alsatian" sounds like "German...
...Woman Disputed.-Hun officer (Lowell Sherman) and Alsatian Angel (Ann Harding...
...None shot down more planes than he, either during one day (6 for Fonck, with but 10 bullets each) or during the whole war (75 for Fonck, the first 32 without permitting a single bullet-hole in his own plane). His long light hair lies smoothly on his broad Alsatian forehead. His hands are quick, eyes alert, his whole body in the fighting trim that he believes is essential to flying in peace or war. Now, of course, he wears civilian clothes, but his military smartness still crops out, as when press photographers caught him in his shirt-sleeves...
...Turner Loeffler, Alsatian composer Mus.D...
...everyone knows, the condemnation for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, and his subsequent rehabilitation created an international scandal almost without precedent between 1904 and 1906. Anti-Semitism was the basis of the incredibly unjust treatment which Dreyfus received, but the trial stirred animosities which penetrated to the very core of French politics...