Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
SOVIET RUSSIA AND REPUBLICAN FRANCE were changed from secret enemies into secret bedfellows by mounting mutual hate & fear of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente...
...Wilhelmstrasse diligent Dictator Hitler at once applied himself to the Franco-British agreement texts, cabled from London this week and delivered to him by the Ambassadors of France and Britain in double-quick time. As he always does when his zeal is excited, Adolf Hitler sat up the whole night. Until he should utter his awful word, German editors hewed to the obstinate line they have taken for months: no return of Germany to the League, no signing of pacts, no concessions or even negotiations about armaments until after the Fatherland has first been granted "as of right" her present...
...peasant-narrator is a philosopher with ideas about everything. He tells what he thinks of the an den regime, of Napoleon, of the bourgeois king. Louis Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been...
...Governor will also reorganize his own administrative offices in four sections: 1) Secretariat; 2) Monuments, Museums and Galleries; 3) Economic Services; 4) Technical Services. High in the Technical Service will be installed the Pope's energetic nephew. Count Franco Ratti...