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...Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and André François-Poncet, French Ambassador...
...Married. André Tardieu. 60. thrice (1929, 1930. 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mme Julia Angelique Largen-ton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...
...Engaged. André Tardieu, 60-year-old threetime (1929, 1930, 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mile. Julia Angelique Largenton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...
...Criticism merely consists in asking oneself if this, that, or the other is 'in the right line.' The line itself is never discussed." The censorship of two adjectives in one of his speeches showed André Gide the line even a distinguished visitor has to toe. He had referred to Russia's destiny, was told he would have to say "glorious destiny." He had referred to a great monarch, was told he would have to delete "great." A longtime champion of homosexuals, he was shocked at the Soviet law condemning homosexuals to five years' deportation...
...André Gide found himself growing more and more antipathetic to the orthodox ''revolutionary" line: "The spirit which is today held to be counter-revolutionary is that same revolutionary spirit, that ferment which first broke through the half-rotten dam of the old Tsarist world...