Word: claudel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Claudel, the great mystical poet and practical statesman whom France has sent as her Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), bade godspeed, last week at Manhattan, to a great urbane, humanitarian Middle Westerner (Cleveland) who returned, after a five months illness to his post as U. S. Ambassador to France...
Cried Poet Claudel, at a farewell Manhattan banquet...
Statesman Claudel thus made clear that Ambassador Herrick would have to explain to France why U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general...
...February 6, the arbitration treaty between France and the U. S. expires. Last week Secretary of State Kellogg gave French Ambassador Claudel the first draft of a new treaty to send home on approval. It was proposed that the U. S. and France agree...
Other notable ingredients in the gala week of Washington opera supplied social and musical excitement. Offspring of three presidents (Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson) sat behind stiff shirts or strings of pearls; French Ambassador Paul Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...