Word: crillon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct contrast were the events of last week. Scarcely had Mr. Hearst arrived at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, after a month of travel in Germany and Italy's lake country, when an officer of the Sûreté Général (Secret Service) visited him with a request from the Ministry of Interior to vacate the country within 36 hours. Publisher Hearst spurned the day's grace, took the afternoon boat-train for London. Next day the French Premier explained that the expulsion had its origin in the famed Horan affair...
...International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon: ''I was at Ivry, you were not there." After Justice Brandeis was ousted in 1912, the ré'gime of Louis Lipsky prospered greatly. But lately it has been criticized for the Jewish-Arab troubles, the estoppage of Palestine immigration, for inefficient management. Such things it can ride...
...correct quotation ''Hang yourself, my pood Crillon. We [the royal "we"] were at Arques, you were not there." Justice Brandeis has a prodigious memory, accurate to minute details. His error may have been one of consonant association. Ivry is pronounced almost exactly like Ivhri, Hebrew word for Hebrew...