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...Foreign Affairs last week. More police and Republican Guards were on reserve in the Gare des Invalides nearby. Precise reporters announced that it was the largest massing of police at the Chamber since that memorable day in 1926 when the people of Paris attempted to dunk Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in the Seine. Word had gone round that an attempt was to be made on the life of Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister...
...Senator Robert Johns Bulkley were paying high prices to import Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, Detroit last week followed up an experiment. Detroit four years ago had no local opera. The idea of one originated with Thaddeus Wronski (Ziembinski), a Polish basso who had studied with famed Edouard De Reszke. He came to the U. S. to sing with the Boston Opera Company in 1911, and ended by giving vocal lessons in Detroit...
...Famed Edouard Herriot resigned last week after 25 years as Mayor of Lyons, third largest city and "silk capital'' of France...
...State, seconded by Norway and Sweden, proposed Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Other names frequently mentioned: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. But the reaction of Washington to both proposals last week was negative, and the League left the chairmanship open. The French continued to boom Edouard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. In London during the week Ambassador Dawes (lawyer by trade) attended the trial of a murderer, was present when the prisoner fainted dead away on being sentenced to Death...
...Gloomily received Minister of Labor Edouard Grinda's announcement that 17,500 persons are now on the French "dole." Two months ago the number was less than 2,000, year ago it was 1,100; but prosperous, gold-hoarding France has suddenly begun to feel a slight pinch from the world boojum of "Depression." Instant Reaction: The State Railways offered reduced fares to foreign laborers desirous of leaving France. Expulsion measures were mooted...