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Most official German publications have tried to pin war guilt largely on Great Britain. Last week an official statement was issued in Berlin which helped along this favorite Nazi thesis but which also recounted the tricky diplomacy of Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister for the 18 crucial months before war's outbreak...
...dozen French governments 50-year-old Georges Bonnet has held such Cabinet posts as Minister of Pensions, Commerce, Public Works, Posts & Telegraph, Finance. He was also once sent as French Ambassador to Washington, where he was scheduled to talk about a compromise on the defaulted French war debt to the U. S. Nothing ever came of that, and social Washington remembered him best for his pretty, English-speaking wife Odette, whom wags called "Oh, debt!" M. Bonnet is tall, parrot-nosed, looks like Cinemactor Ben Turpin...
...Bonnet's role in the negotiations that led to the historic Munich Pact pleased the British Government, the French industrialists, who are among his chief supporters, and the Nazis, but displeased anti-appeasers everywhere. He talked big about France keeping her alliances, but acted differently. He held up a crucial message from President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia to Premier Daladier. In forwarding to the British Cabinet a French Army resume he was said to have censored it so that the weaknesses and not the strength of the French Army were emphasized...
...Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer can do all three and make it exciting enough to pack a women's clubhouse...
...will in the world and the notion that Wolfe was "first of all, a poet" the publishers have anthologized 71 pieces of descriptive, rhapsodic and wistful prose from his novels and shorter works. The effect: that of sticking in a vase 71 feathers that belonged on an Indian war bonnet with wind...