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...Mississippi's mouth, there remains a section still racially pure and traditionally almost a country within a country, the Bayou Teche country of the French who fled from Grand Pré, Canada, in 1755. They are les Acadiens. Last week, like other distinguished Frenchmen before him, Ambassador Paul Claudel went there. "Vous êtes ici parmi les Français," a serious local dignitary told him. "Nos ancêstres sont fraçais, nos sentiments sont fraçais, notre religion est fraçais." It was so surprisingly true that the good Ambassador felt himself deeply touched...
...full springtime in the South and Ambassador Claudel is a poet famed and, in the French sense, serious. It was full springtime and the poet-ambassador was finding travel restful after a winter of buzzy Washington. He had seen Florida. He was going next to Tennessee. In between came this spot of which he had heard so much and he was prepared to luxuriate...
...Into the President's study marched French Ambassador Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want...
Last week an arbitration treaty between the U. S. and France was signed at Washington by Under-Secretary of State Robert E. Olds and Poet-Statesman-Mystic Paul Claudel, French Ambassador...
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...