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...might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world's finest athletes hurl themselves downhill in pursuit of a piece of cheese or watching slo-mo replays of bloodied shin kickers or muddied bog snorkelers going for the gold. For, as J.R. Daeschner relates in his obsessive, down-and-dirty travelogue, True Brits (Arrow Books; 340 pages), they're the kind of thing that passed for "physical culture" among the Anglo-Saxons of yore. And what's more, such ancient sports and kindred traditions are very much alive and, er, kicking in 21st century Britain...
Died. Emile Daeschner, 66, French Ambassador to the U.S. (1925); of heart attack; in Paris...
...Briand demanded the instant re lease from prison at Constantinople of the captain of the French steamer Lotus who had been jailed in defiance of international law when the Lotus recently rammed and sank in a heavy fog the Turkish ship Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first Ambassador to occupy the new French Legation at the nouveau capital of Turkey, Angora, a town still chiefly com posed...
...Ambassador Henry Berenger, Senator of France, appeared at the White House and presented his credentials as Ambassador and the papers recalling his predecessor, M. Daeschner. The Ambassador declared: "France is resolved to settle the debts contracted for her defense." And the President replied: "There should be no insuperable difficulty...
Despatches at length announced the long expected appointment of Senator Victor Henry Bérenger to succeed Ambassador Nosky Georges Henri Emile Daeschner at Washington. Observers recalled that Senator Bérenger is Reporter General of the Budget to the Senate; that he came to the U. S. as second ranking member of M. Caillaux's ill fated debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, Oct. 12) and that he is almost as widely known as a financial expert as Finance Minister Loucheur...