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Awarded. To French Ambassador to the U. S. Paul Claudel and Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, honorary doctorates of law by the University of the State of New York;* to blind Helen Keller, the Pictorial Review $5,000 Achievement Prize for completing the $1,000,000 fund campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind; to Steelman Charles M. Schwab, the Melchett medal of the English Institute of Engineers: to Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, the Goethe medal and a certificate signed by President von Hindenburg...
With Chairman Lytton worked the "unofficial" U. S. commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...
...Satin Slipper, "a, poetic drama of human destiny and spiritual salvation" by Poet Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., was published by Yale University Press. Excerpts from the preface: "Ideas from one end of the world to the other are catching fire like stubble. From Thames to Tiber is heard a great clatter of arms and of hammers in the shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark...
...Eighty-five men, no women, were White House banquet guests that night. In the State Dining Room, President Hoover was the big centre nail of the horseshoe table. On his right Premier Laval, left Ambassador Paul Claudel of France, nearby Marshal Pétain. A large assortment of bigwig publisher-editors included Arthur Brisbane, who wrote in his next Today: "Who sees only 'peasant ancestry' in the face of Laval would see only a peasant woman in the Mona Lisa face. . . . Don't play poker with him. . . . The President looked weary...
Fortunately (in view of this avalanche of flowers) the Laval suite was large, largest on the He de France which also carried Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mme Suero (daughter of President Machado of Cuba) and Mile Reine Claudel (daughter of French Ambassador to the U. S. Paul Claudel) who chattered Washington pointers to Josette...