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Toward Geneva the train of French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval was chuffing. Day before this crass politician had been considerably surprised when his subordinate in Rome, deft and subtle Ambassador de Chambrun, managed to achieve a fairly satisfactory agreement with German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell as to post-plebiscite procedure in the Saar, if it votes to rejoin Germany (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week M. Laval was due for another surprise...
...Reached a tentative accord with Germany on procedure to be followed IF the Saar Territory votes on Jan. 13 to rejoin the Fatherland. Meeting in Rome last week under League of Nations auspices, French Ambassador Count de Chambrun and German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell signed a text which they did not disclose. It was supposed to provide, if and when Realmleader Hitler bags the Saar, that 1) Germany will buy the Saar mines owned by the French Government for 900,000,000 francs (approximately $59,400,000) plus large payments in coal; and 2) Saar citizens will enjoy "equal rights...
Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome...
...Count de Chambrun's brother, Jacques-Adalbert, was born in Washington, married Clara Longworth, sister of the late famed Speaker Nicholas Longworth...
Countess de Chambrun bases her romanticized tale of Shakespeare's career on "two score years of personal research," which includes a knowledge of the latest diggings among Shakespeare's bones. Perhaps Anne Hathaway really was the beautiful and understanding wife Author de Chambrun portrays: perhaps Shakespeare really was mixed up in Papist alarums and Essex' plot; perhaps he went to Scotland and had a fine clack with King James. But Author de Chambrun, though she is a bright lady and writes a conscientious romance, has not the vivifying touch. Readers will get more of an inkling about...