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Exiled from Paris by his doctors to avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...
...position, did nothing either, but took pains to be exceedingly polite. Realizing that France and Germany must come to direct terms sooner or later, the French and German delegations stayed at the same hotel, the Ritz. Junior attachés breakfasted together publicly. Swart Premier Laval and stoop-shouldered Brer Briand were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were frazzled. For two days wires sputtered with details of a ruckus between...
...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
...butted, en his head got stuck. Den Brer Fox he sautered fort', lookin' des ez innercent ez one er go' mammy's mockin' birds...
...Howdy, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. 'You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin', sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laughed en laughed twel he couldn't laugh...