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Bloody Plains. Germany contains two major theatres of war although for more than a hundred years no big war has been fought on German soil. In 1914 this was due to German possession of Alsace and Lorraine, which kept the French from pouring through the Lorraine Gateway and the Belfort gap. In 1870, when the French owned the border provinces, the stupidity of Marshal Bazaine, who shut himself up in the fortress of Metz and refused to stir, deprived France of the opportunity to push into the South German Basin...
...politicians took no open part in last week's campaign. He was André ("L'Americain") Tardieu, Premier in 1929-30. After a year and a half's retirement writing his memoirs on the Riviera, André Tardieu was reported ready to run for Parliament from Belfort, at the insistence of Belfort's boss, Senator Viellard, steel tycoon. M. Tardieu went to Belfort. but instead of announcing himself a candidate for the Chamber, he made his sponsor's ears burn by declaring that he was through with parliamentary government forever...
This was the substance of a resolution adopted last week by a convention of French professors at Belfort...
...Poet.--John Belfort Keogh of Chicago, Illinois...
Robert Fellman G.S. '13-'14 is a lieutenant in the French Army. He took part in the defence of Belfort...