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...Third President," M. Ferdinand Buisson; won his election last week by the clean cut vote of 284 to 186. He represents the "Locarnoist" policy of Foreign Minister Briand, and defeated for his new post the onetime "Ruhrist" War Minister of Premier Poincaré, M. André Maginot. Frenchmen were pleased by the elevation of M Buisson last week, for he has held the thankless Vice-Presidency of the Chamber for the past two years with tact, polish, souplesse...
...Nice, Prefect of Police André Gueulechien gazed across his desk, pensively caressing his pointed beard. Towards him from the door, assisted by gendarmes, staggered a woman, gurgling unintelligible things out of a blood-slavered mouth. Prefect Gueulechien listened attentively. He recognized the woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write...
Experts accompanying the delegation were: J. B. Vincent, administrator of the Treasury; J. Warland, director of the public debt; René van Crombrugge, diplomat; André Terlinden, dlrecteur de la Sociôté National de Credit a I'lndustrie; Robert Silvercruys, secretary-general to the delegation...
CAPTAINS AND KINGS-André Mauois (translated by Lewis May)-Appleon ($1.50). As one would have guessed, The French psychologist who wrote the first unprejudiced life of Shelley (Ariel*) can conduct a philosophical argument with delicacy, wit and penetration. From his interest in Shelley, one would also have guessed that M. Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist...
French Champion. At Chantilly, France, A. M. Vagliano dug his ball out of the cuppy, sandy lies; kept it out of the briars and birchwoods along the boundaries; evaded the gullies near the clubhouse; holed his putts on the bleached, worm-ridden greens. Against him played strapping André Gobert, onetime French Davis Cup (tennis) player. André is a newcomer to golf, stiff of wrist, mathematical with his backswing, monstrously strong at long shots; but he needs his gracious, white- toothed smile for such opponents as Monsieur Vagliano. The latter vanquished André, 6 and 4 in 36 holes...