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Arabia- "Have discovered legendary city of Sheba. Twenty towers or temples still standing. On north boundary Rouba-el-Khali. Have taken photographs for l'Intransigeant-André Malraux." Those electric words, cabled from Djibouti in far-off French Somaliland, last week jerked the editors of Paris' evening paper l'Intransigeant from their mulling over the Stavisky scandal. Soon across the front pages of the world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer...
Paris applauded André B. d'Olivier, agent for the French National Association for Economic Expansion, who signed last week a long projected agreement with the South Manchuria Railway to grant it credit for purchasing French rolling stock and material for use in Manchukuo...
Societe Anonyme André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
Henceforth André Citroën will confine his automotive genius to production, leaving policies to his financial betters. Meantime an army of auditors swarmed over the Citroën ledgers. In Le Soir a realistic financial observer remarked: "It is impossible now to get any exact idea of the company's condition. ... In prosperous days, accounts meant little because increased demand and prices covered everything...
...Cabinet was quickly formed containing representatives of nearly every party except Royalists, orthodox Socialists and Communists. Much was made of the fact that, including "Gastounet," who served as Premier once before in 1913-14, six onetime Premiers were in it: Edouard Herriot, now Minister of State without portfolio; André Tardieu, also a Minister of State; Pierre Laval, now Minister of Colonies; Albert Sarraut, now Minister of the Interior; Louis Barthou, now Minister of Foreign Affairs. Republican idealists were more concerned over the fact that for the first time since the founding of the Third Republic the Cabinet contained...