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Liberal leaders listened to the King's message in the Salle des Maréchaux at the Defense Ministry. They sat around a horseshoe table nibbling tea biscuits, and after half an hour announced their acceptance "in principle." But, they cautioned, the message "will require certain clarifications and declarations...
That sentence summarized Western Europe's fear. In the French National Defense Ministry's Salle des Maréchaux, where Napoleon used to brief his marshals, the five Western European nations last week decided to set up a watch on the Rhine. Implementing the Brussels alliance (TIME, March 15), the defense ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg met and agreed on common measures against aggression-i:e., against a possible Russian attack. They set up "permanent international command . . . under a permanent military chairman...
...French Catholics in Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...