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Autumn term began last week. For the first time anyone could remember, perhaps for the first time in history, the Minister of Justice was not there. Gone too was the academic calm. Young lawyers waved their long black sleeves and roared: "Justice! Justice! Justice! Pfui Ch??ron'. A has les Assassins!" To the base of a memorial to all French judges who have died for their country the young lawyers dragged a huge wreath. It was marked: IN MEMORY OF JUDGE PRINCE?MURDERED...
Persia bought a modest $2,000,000 Navy last week (see p. 16). Germany let contracts for her third $20,000,000 "pocket battleship" (see p. 14). France began "war games" or "autumn maneuvers" around Ch??lons-sur-Marne to continue until Sept...
...world. . . . The great war against depression is being fought on many fronts. One of the most stupendous actions has been the long battle of the last 18 months to carry our financial structure safely through the world-wide collapse. That battle may be likened to the great battle of Ch??teau Thierry. That attack on our line has been stopped. But I warn you that the war is not over. We must now reform our forces for the battle of Soissons...
...Washington was sweltering. Tempers were short. Discarding forensic veneer, speaking "as one soldier to another." the veteran of Ch??teau-Thierry and Soissons said: "What I have to say is that there is a little uneasiness in this country about the American Legion. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...
Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Ch??teldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...