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...March 12, 1932. In Paris, diplomats and common men moved in solemn lines past the bier of a fallen world figure, Aristide Briand. Across the Seine, in a room on the Avenue Victor Emmanuel III, another world, figure wrote three short notes. One of them ended: "Goodbye now and thanks. I.K." The big, round-faced man rose from his desk, smoothed out the unmade bedclothes, lay down, shot himself with a pistol just below the heart...
...shortly sold over a million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William Allen White, Eduard Benes. Unlike most Utopian outlines, Looking Backward presented a concrete program for the modern world...
...when we entered the Avenue Aristide Briand, 9:40 when we passed through the Porte d'Orleans. This was Paris proper and, if such a thing were possible, the crowd grew thicker in the street. When the General's car stopped, they climbed up on it with their flowers and flags-Tricolors, Stars & Stripes, Union Jacks, Red flags with the hammer & sickle. Leclerc stood stiffly clutching his cane, never smiling, while the men in the armored car and in the jeeps behind took the crowd's embraces. Women held their children up to be kissed...
...dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States of Europe, but his wise, rotund and sentimental words were lost in the smashing tread of the Brownshirt goosestep...
...serving at present at New York University as the somewhat obscure director of a research seminar on a postwar European federation. But from 1919 to 1940 Coudenhove-Kalergi might have been found in any one of a dozen European capitals, now plucking the sleeve of the sympathetic Aristide Briand, now arguing his case for a federated Europe with noncommittal Englishmen, sometimes going so far as to lobby Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht or Benito Mussolini...