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...boundaries of Paris were extended to make room for a new Quartier, that of Auteuil, which includes the whole of the Bois de Boulogne and the two race courses, Auteuil and Longchamps. The Bois was virtually owned by Paris for many years, but technically it belonged to the Commune of Boulogne...
...Bolsheviki may change mates as often as they desire under the new divorce law. Under a recent decree they may change any or all of their names by the simple process of notifying the Registrar of the Commune. The only change that the Bolshevik authorities will not tolerate is a change of Government...
...silence. Suddenly a score or more of bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe, one of the original flags of the Paris Commune (Europe's first encounter with Karl Marx Communism)-the last to go over the barricades when the French regulars from Versailles crushed the Reds. In the centre of the delegation fluttered from a pole the faded red flag; on the top of the pyramid Kalinin received...
...Council of the League of Nations on the application of Finland presented an advisory case concerning the status of East Karelia (labor commune in Russia). The population of East Karelia is largely Finnish; the Finns are anxious to know if the Soviet Government did or did not undertake to make the internal administration of East Karelia an international affair, when it signed the Treaty of Dorpat...
...cottage at Dole, in the Vosges, where Pasteur was born, the son of a poor tanner, has been purchased for 40,000 francs by John D. Rockefeller and others as a centenary gift to the people of the commune. It will be remodeled by the French into a public museum...