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...been clear from the first that the Hoover Moratorium would have to be extended or some cancellation made, but the President prefers to have Europe ask Congress. As something bright and dramatic, Premier Laval announced that he would call what amounts to a new Reparations Conference in December at Biarritz...
...Biarritz in the swank Hotel du Palais, on the site of a pleasure palace of the Emperor Napoleon III, the World's leading statesmen will again decide, as they did at the Dawes Conference and again at the Young Conference, just what is "Germany's capacity...
Paris, the city that decapitated one pair of Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much...
Alfonso's interest in the U. S. is not limited to remarking that he wished he could go there. Often he plays polo with or against U. S. citizens on his own fields in Madrid and Santander, or at Biarritz, Deauville, sometimes Ranelagh. In 1928 he gave a cup for a transatlantic sailing race from the U. S. to Santander. He gave the King of Spain Trophy for annual competition in the eight-metre class held in U. S. waters. Alfonso's admiration for U. S. businessmen (he profited handsomely from the late Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore's advice...
Identified members of this potent gaming cabal are Messrs. Koujongeorg, Andre (French gambling-house proprietor), Zar-eth and Zographos. Supposed assets: some 1,200,000,000 francs ($46,800,000). For almost ten years these gentlemen have run the baccarat banks at Deauville, Cannes, Monte Carlo. Biarritz, La Baule, Aix-les-Bains, Juan-les-Pins, Le Touquet. They have prospered to the extent of paying 25,000% in dividends to their 50-odd investors. Most famed member of the group is M. Zographoo, whose extravagance is voitures de grand sport (fast automobiles) and whose reputation for honesty is only equalled...