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...Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, was compelled to remain temporarily in or near the capital because of rapid naval disarmament developments. He. longed to get away to the usual British summer embassy at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass. French Ambassador Paul Claudel was likewise unable to escape because of the necessity of negotiating a postponement of the French debt settlement...
French Ambassador M. Paul Claudel, famed poet, philosopher, mystic. A chubby, bald, scraggly-mustached man, he is so shy that formal diplomatic entertainments are obnoxious to him. In Japan, his last ambassadorial post, he was almost a national hero because of his literary achievements, his appreciation of difficult Oriental art. Last week he said: "I shall not surrender a privilege of so many years' standing...
Paul Louis Charles Claudel, poet, novelist, French Ambassador to the U.S., spoke in Manhattan last week to the Catholic Actors Guild. Said he: "I am sure [you] are all good Catholics and very good actors. As for myself, if I try to be a good Catholic I am not at all sure to be a good actor on that very catholic scene of Washington diplomacy, where ambassadors have to play their part in a kind of international revue and all-day performance before a tolerant but slightly bored public...
...Worcester, Mass., last week went France's learned Ambassador-Poet-Play-wright Paul Claudel. His purpose: to visit Assumption College on its 25th anniversary. So distinguished a Frenchman as he could not go to Worcester without causing a civic demonstration. Fully one-quarter of Worcester's total population (197,600) is foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel...
...hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...