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Married. Jean Lebrun, son of France's President Albert-Frangois Lebrun; and one Bernadette Marin, daughter of a retired army captain: quietly, in the town hall of Rambouillet (the French President's Rapidan). A witness: Premier Edouard Herriot...
...Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prince Noulay El Hassan, 3, son & heir of Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed, strolled hand in hand on a Paris boulevard. The tiny Prince spied, coveted a toy horse and automobile in a store window. The Premier promptly bought them, delivered them in person to the Sultan's hotel...
...granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge on its hill top at Meaux on the Marne, 30 miles from Paris. Present were solemn, long-mustached President Albert Lebrun of France, plump, genial Premier Edouard Herriot and a French audience so militant that two mentions of Aristide Briand (the late, great French Peace Man) were vociferously booed. Schoolchildren and monuments were all but forgotten when Ambassador Edge, speaking presumably for the State Department, uttered what sounded like the first breath of a more vigorous U. S. foreign...
...Paris, fat, good-natured Premier Edouard Herriot ignored the loud screams of rage and fear of the whole French Press, sent word to. Berlin that "naturally" all signatories to the Treaty of Versailles would have to be consulted and that France will consult them. Next day signatory Poland announced her "categorical objection" to any change in the Treaty of Versailles and signatory Britain took steps. At the Empire's grimy Foreign Office correspondents were negatively told that His Majesty's Government was not backing Germany in her demands on France. Paris newspapers, overjoyed, hailed this as proof that...
...Schleicher knew that he could expect nothing from the French Rightists of the Poincaré-Tardieu-Laval group. He made his overtures to all the French opposition leaders, especially to Radical Edouard Herriot, Socialist Leon Blum. He offered them two definite concessions. If France did not openly oppose his plans he would smother the German propaganda campaign against Poland, France's ally, and he would break Germany's close business and financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining...