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...forthwith. A flying squad of detectives dashed from Marseille 120 miles to raid, at Cannes, the jewelry shop kept by a brother of M. Deloncle, discovered and seized three sabres. Papers seized by the police, who have been calling their suspects collectively Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men"), mentioned a Comité Secret d'Action Révolutionnaire or C.S.A.R. Promptly Les Cagoulards became Le Csar in news stories...
...France has, however, a much older military alliance with Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co., owned 70% by the Czech Government, is 30% owned by the Skoda munitions trust which is according to latest reports in turn controlled by the French Comité des Forges. France, not wishing for another Fascist neighbor in Spain, might therefore have had equally good reason and better opportunity for interfering...
...theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout was to France's Comité Franco-Américain pour la Restauration des Monuments...
...unexpected guest in 1923 at a Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
...possible service. Fortnight ago public hearings began. Last March FORTUNE pointed out that, though the U. S. was far from innocent in the game of international armaments, U. S. munitions makers were very small fry indeed compared to such vast purveyors of war materials as France's Comité des Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar...