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...Mourned the death last week of the Borah of France, Senator Victor Berard, 67, Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. He, the scholarly assistant director of the Ecole dcs Hantes Etudes, resembled Senator Borah in exceedingly few respects. After 44 years of preparation, Senator Berard published recently his great tome Did Homer Live? Weighing the evidence pro & con with vast erudition, he cautiously concluded that Homer in all probability did live...
...election, the renomination of Herbert Hoover is almost as good as accomplished. Against him is only one formal and forlorn candidacy?Dr. Joseph Irwin France of Maryland (TIME, April 30). Dwight Whitney Morrow, on whom Wets pinned dreamy hopes, is dead. A vague stirring of Liberals for William Edgar Borah, with talk of cash support, received no encouragement from the Idaho Senator. The rank & file of the Republican Party may not be enthusiastic about their national leader but they have little choice about putting him again at the head of their ticket...
...Laval himself read Mr. Borah's interview and remarked pointedly that he had come to the U. S. to confer with President Hoover. Next evening, however, the two met at Secretary Stimson's and talked for an hour and a half. Afterward...
...Said Mr. Borah: "I do not think we were any closer together when we parted than when we started. We talked over everything. . . . We had a delightful conversation...
...Borah's diplomatic encounters were not yet over. He attended the French Embassy reception in honor of the Premier, and there Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz of Poland seized him by the buttonhole. Mr. Borah is no man to retreat. He repeated his opinions on the Polish Corridor, but added by way of diplomacy that he did not pretend to be completely informed. Ambassador Filipowicz drew himself up in his diplomatic uniform, with all his decorations jangling, and made the retort courteous: "I congratulate you, Senator, on your moral courage-in admitting the incompleteness of your knowledge...