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...last minute, suspense had been terrific lest Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI should forbid Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano, Archbishop of Palermo, to officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
...this reason accursed Mm. Daudet & Maurras came not as guests but as reporters, slyly laughed up their Royalist sleeves at Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano who performed the ceremony, imparted a nuptial blessing and celebrated low mass while Princess Isabelle quietly wept...
...such topics as exploration in the Antarctic, the aftermath of the stock market crash, and dictatorship in European policies were asked for last year: in the fact quiz, the candidates had to identify and bring out the part played in current news of such figures as Mme. Curie, Leon Daudet, and Ortiz Rubio as well as to answer briefly such questions as, "Who won the Pulitzer Novel Prize for 1928-29?" and "Who is governor-general of the Philippines?" Concise political summaries, on subjects such as the part played by the United States in current Russo-Chinese difficulties and Ghandi...
...juicy a scandal as I'Affaire Koutiepoff could not be laid on the shelf without a sniff and a playful poke from that irrpressible gourmet, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the flamboyant Royalist sheet Action Française. "Mark my words!" he wrote. ''War will come of this in a few months...
Article 14 of the Covenant, according to Les Liberté, gives France and Italy the right to settle their disputes in the Mediterranean. It is, however, suggested by Leon Daudet that parity be granted both Italy and France in the ratio o; three to one, so that any deep differences between the two Latin sisters may be settled on such basis; that is, three Italians to one Frenchman at the bottom of the Mediterranean. This because of the difference in the birthrate between the two nations...