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During the Council debate French Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour scathingly declared that the shipment was sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing...
When the Commission reconvenes, that afternoon, "there are speeches in reply to Litvinov. The Delegate of France, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, takes him softly and indulgently to task for disparaging and seeking to hurry the progress of the League toward Security: a goal deemed inseparable from Disarmament. "If our progress has been slow," says M. Paul-Boncour, "the real fault lies in a lack of 'the international spirit' throughout the World, which no one can remedy...
...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
...Crown Prince of Montenegro until that realm was united with Jugoslavia (1918), entered a cinema theatre in Paris, last week, sat down, composed himself to view lily-fleshed Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. . . . Next day a wrathful M. Danilo Petrovic strode into the office of M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed barrister, repeatedly French representative before the League of Nations, known because of his silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together. Then...
Enlightened, Pacifist Paul-Boncour inspected the bill, found it good and "purely defensive," introduced it with all the weight of his influence and the persuasion of his lawyer oratory before the Chamber...