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...best answer came from Eton's headmaster, Robert Birley, who traced the words back to Montalembert's De l'Avenir Politique de I'Angleterre, published in 1855. According to Count Montalembert, the Duke of Wellington, returning to Eton in his old age, exclaimed: "It is here that the battle of Waterloo was won." Obviously the playing fields had been tucked in later. Triumphantly, the seventh Duke wrote another letter to the Times last week: "The only authority for attributing the phrase to Wellington is a Frenchman writing three years after the Duke's death . . . Wellington...
...Temps et la Vie, L'homme devant la Science, and L'Avenir de L'Esprit (which ran through 22 French editions in eight months during the occupation...
...permitted anyone to engage him in conversation about Reparations & War Debts (only Dr. Bruning, reputedly, tried to bring them up). ¶The sudden violence against Statesman Stimson of virtually the whole French Press, a violence which at once subsided after Premier Tardieu got over his scare. In the Paris Avenir, for example, French Senator Billiet had accused Statesman Stimson of "trying to cash in on the situation" by using what is owed the U. S. as a bargaining weapon to induce Europe to disarm. "By these gentlemen" [from Washington], stormed Senator Billiet, "the problems of Security and Peace are treated...
...Italo-French relations is that Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi is friendly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, is doing his best to keep the "wild man" fairly quiet. Last week's speech by Signore Mussolini was therefore almost ignored by the semi-official Paris Temps. But L'Avenir (organ of the Center) burst out: "The French Government should declare once and for all to the blackshirts and their German friends that we intend to revise nothing whatever! We will no more demolish the Versailles peace treaty to please Mussolini than to satisfy that crazy man Hitler. Let them understand...
...before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...