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When it suddenly closed, Bankster Neidecker was not to be found. He was rumored to be cruising in the Mediterranean in his yacht. Shooting Star. He was supposed to have deserted his extravagant apartments on Avenue Foch for his villa at Deauville. He was reported to be in London seeking financial support. But, as French police soon discovered in their own records, Bankster Neidecker was safe aboard the Britannic, Manhattan bound...
...moods changed with Hamlet-like rapidity, and politicians said he always agreed with the last speaker. The assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin of his teeth." Once he told his aide-de-camp, as they started for a celebration, that there would be no crowd, since his subjects did not like...
Retired from active service since January, little General Maxime Weygand, favorite of Marshal Foch and onetime Inspector General of the French Army, emerged from obscurity last week to take part in the ceremony of relighting the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small...
...sympathy of Woodrow Wilson and other Allied leaders. In 1920 when Marshal Pilsudski was at war with Russia in an attempt to drive Soviet troops from East Galicia, and found his troops beaten at every turn, it was the French military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch's favorite, dapper little General Maxime Weygand, that turned the Bolsheviks from the gates of Warsaw in one of the decisive battles of modern times. Later in Warsaw he became intimate with two men destined to go far, Relief Administrator Herbert Hoover, and Mgr. Achille Ratti, who became Pope of Rome...
...however, Gaston Doumergue is no Georges Clemenceau, no tiger. He never was of the calibre of Poincare, Foch and Clemenceau-but he survived them. Last winter, when blood spattered the Place de la Concorde, only ex-President Doumergue, as Premier, had prestige enough to save France by organizing a truce which last week had lasted nine long months. Now that his truce must end, how would he end it? With all the fervor of a sterling bourgeois and a passionate Republican, M. Doumergue exhorted Colonel de la Roque not to attempt a Fascist solution of the crisis...