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Unlike London, Paris has no beauteous peers' daughters standing by their Rolls-Royces in trick uniforms waiting for statesmen to emerge from Government buildings and be whisked away. There are no French sailorettes like the pert British "Wrens." At French air fields no uniformed female auxiliaries lunch gaily with pilots just back from showering Germany with leaflets. The wives of French bigwigs, from Mme Albert Lebrun down, simply do such war work as they can, are notably chary of becoming "honorary president" of this or that...
...Paris chuffed last week a special train crammed with statesmen and ambassadors. Speeding through the "Chateau Country" it rolled down the beauteous Valley of the Loire on an extra-special mission. Aboard were nearly all members of the new expatriate "Government of Poland" recently set up at Paris (TIME...
These malefactors were small potatoes in the international game of espionage. Had they been large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in official secrets on a grand scale. Maltreated Dutch wife of a bibulous Scottish captain in the Dutch colonial forces, she went on the stage in Paris in 1905, passing as part Javanese, with a performance of muscular bravura learned in Java. She became France's leading courtesan, sought, kept...
Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...
...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...