Word: chambruns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bored Paris correspondents know that more than one blase second-string Continental newswoman gets her best interviews by giving herself and thinks little of the exchange, but they listened to the shooting diarist's quickly hired Paris lawyer. His story was that Ambassador de- Chambrun had broken off a French woman's great romance with the Italian Dictator, and so naturally she shot him. "Naturellement, Messieurs! Mark you, gentlemen, the great love of her life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official...
...weeks ago the memoirs of two U. S. women of affairs painted dark portraits of Count Johann von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S. Countess de Chambrun in Shadows Like Myself (TIME, Sept. 28), included the Ambassador among the powerful, devious, tenacious conspirators of the German Embassy who influenced local elections, created social difficulties for the French Embassy. Mary Doyle in Life Was Like That described how she had been sent by the New York World to spy on Bernstorff during his absence from Washington in the hope of uncovering a journalistic sensation. Last week Bernstorff himself...
SHADOWS LIKE MYSELF-Clara Longworth (Countess de Chambrun)-Scribner...
Married, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval, 23, daughter of France's peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineto de Chambrun, 28, nephew of the late great Nicholas Longworth, longtime Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Paris...
...members of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which recently cracked down on U. S. "Slave Dancer" Joan Warner (TIME, July 22), took ap proving note of Jose Laval's engagement, adopted a resolution of "hope that after her marriage to Count René de Chambrun she will have many children...