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Sculptor Bartholdi quickly produced a number of sketches for his monument (now on exhibit among other Liberty documents at the Museum of the City of New York), but would have had little success with his project when he got back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...
...gulp with alarm. It appeared to all European military experts that the German infantry machine was being put on a footing more powerful than the French for the first time since 1914. Amid the yelps of every Paris paper appeared such cold, professional judgments as this from General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer: "It is my opinion that bringing the conscription period up to two years enables Germany to begin a war without prior mobilization...
None of the 26 committeemen may serve more than three successive years. Baron Edouard de Rothschild for example, a Bank of France regent for a generation, may be re-elected after his next three years are up only by taking a year's holiday. Debate in the Chamber was remarkably brief. Opponents of the reform bill held up their hands in holy horror at what they called the growth of "Etatisme"-government-in-business, State Socialism, etc. etc. Cried a conservative Deputy...
...years of debate," cried Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. "It is the unanimous wish that if war breaks out again it should not be, as in the past, a source of huge profits for some while others are making sacrifices of their lives. We hope that our example will be followed by other nations and thus lead to the reduction of armaments. . . . War must not be a source of scandalous profit. We want peace, but the peace we desire is the peace of free men and not of slaves...
...sometimes welcomes the old nobility, the distinguished diplomats and the arrived artists for whom it was built by Marie Louise, but today ministers of the first definitely Socialist Cabinet France has ever had are her star guests. Always the place of honor is occupied by "The Bull," heavy-jowled Edouard Daladier, Minister of Defense. Not long ago M. Daladier wrested control of the Radical Socialist Party from paunchy old Edouard Herriot, also a frequent guest of the Marquise de Crussol, and the possibility of a Left coup d' état is never mentioned without mentioning the Bull, who today...