Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Spring the French and their Continental allies put through with the con sent of the then Conservative British Government a resolution providing in effect that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission should not seek or even con sider ways of limiting either war mate rials held in peacetime readiness by a nation or the number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last...
Paris. Throughout the week the French Government appeared to grow steadily more apprehensive lest the U. S. and Britain were drawing too closely into disarmament cahoots. Fear that Italy and France may be brusquely dictated to by Britain and the U. S. at the Five Power Naval Conference was increasingly manifest in the Paris press. Said the Journal des Debats...
...best-known policeman in France is dapper, jovial Jean Chiappe, Paris's bowler-hatted Prefect. Last week the second best-known French policeman, meticulous Gaston Edmond Bayle, was shot three times in the back and died instanter...
Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...
Born at LeHavre in 1875, his education was completed at the Lycee Condorcet, the Faculte des lettres, Faculte de droit, and School of political science, after which he became a member of the French bar. He was also a member of the "Society of the French Renaissance," professor of the School of political science, and chevalier of the Legion of Honor, besides having a British Military Medal...