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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damn your Jesuit brother!" roared Clemenceau, "I say you are M. le Di-recteur de I'École Supérieure de Guerre, and all the Jesuits in creation can't alter that fact...
Excepting only the Unknown Soldier, the last hero to lie beneath the Arc de Triomphe up to last week was Victor Hugo, 43 years ago. The emotion of Frenchmen was keyed to such a pitch that even the official tellers of the Chamber of Deputies−men chosen for no other quality than their incorruptible honor−majestically lied when the Communist Deputies voted against a bill granting $12,000 to defray the expenses of the funeral. Though every Communist who had thus voted rose and blatantly proclaimed the fact, the official count showed that the bill had passed unanimously...
Draped completely in long streamers of black were the high walls and soaring towers of the Cathėdrale de Notre Dame. Thus, with a deed, the Catholic Church received the most illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous...
Under the patronage of His Majesty King Albert and His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S., there arrived last week in Manhattan the Symphonic Band of the Royal Belgian Guards, for a three months' tour...
Royal was the welcome extended to Royal Belgians last week in Manhattan. Prince Albert de Ligne and his Ambassadorial staff met them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...