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...Cardinal Baudrillart, who still remains one of General Gamelin's best friends. At Stanislas, methodical Maurice further disciplined his mind by memorizing ten lines of prose at night (because it was harder than poetry) and reading a book of philosophy a week. After Stanislas he entered St. Cyr, French West Point, where in 1893 he finished first in a class...
...French army is kept democratic by the invariable practice of allowing only one-half its active officers to be taken from Saint-Cyr and the Polytechnique, Gallic West Points. The result has been a businesslike class of fine professional officers. With a hierarchy of officers whose continuity of tradition has not been broken since the 1870s, the French are probably weak on new tactics. They are scholars in warfare. It is typical that able Chief of Staff Gamelin, even-tempered Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that...
...world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General Hans Kundt...
Governor King of Louisiana went up to Richmond, Va., last week to a conference with other Governors. When Lieutenant Governor Paul N. Cyr jumped at the governorship last October and was caught politically off-base, Governor Long had Senate President Alvin Oliver King sworn in to take his place. When Huey Long went to the U. S. Senate, his friend Alvin King stepped into the Executive Mansion, leaving Louisiana with no Lieutenant Governor, no Senate President. Next person in line to substitute for Governor King was Alice Lee Grosjean. She is a good friend of Huey Long's, used...
With his man elected, Huey Long was ready to change from Governor to Senator. In a private car he journeyed to Washington while Dr. Paul Cyr and Alvin O. King bickered over who was to be acting Governor of Louisiana. King won, was sworn in as Governor, while Cyr sneered: "usurper!" Senator Long took ten rooms at the Mayflower Hotel, received the Press in lavender pajamas and declared: "I'm a small fish here perhaps but I'm the kingfish to the people of Louisiana." He smoked his way into the Senate, announced himself "ready for business...