Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago in French Morocco, swaggering, red-headed Brigadier-General Freydenberg, battle scarred onetime monk, vivid division commander of the Foreign Legion, rushed with 8,000 men to the relief of the besieged garrison at Ait Yacoub, Jacob's Hummock (TIME, June 24). Ait Yacoub was relieved. General Freydenberg wired the French Ministry of War that he was preparing, in accordance with the old Foreign Legion custom, to wipe out the offending Moors...
...French officers in Morocco did not hesitate to say that the recall of General Freydenberg was entirely political. The Ait Yacoub affair was causing uncomfortable debates in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist and Communist deputies wanted to know the cause of this latest Moroccan outbreak. There were stories of Moorish villages bombed by aviators, Moorish women and children killed. The Poincare government, attacked, recalled Freydenberg, whose brusque methods had been if anything too effective...
...Berlin's Vossische Zeitung Chancellor Hermann Miiller. who signed the Versailles Treaty, told for the first time his reminiscences of the ceremony, described how he and Johannes Bell, his colleague, signed the treaty with their own pens because they heard that the French wanted them to sign with pens from Alsace-Lorraine. Chancellor Müller signed with his own old fountain pen, Delegate Bell with a wooden pen taken from his hotel bedroom...
Walter Hines Page died in 1918 after serving as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Succeeding him as Editor of World's Work have been his son Arthur Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World...
...pontificate of Pius XI. Others are: St. John Eudes, who at the age of 14 vowed himself to perpetual chastity. preached in Normandy, founded in 1641 the Institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge; St. John Baptist Vianney (1786-1859), famed parish priest of the little French village of Ars; St. Magdalen-Sophy Barat (1779-1865), foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart; St. Mary Magdalen Postel (1756-1846), foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of Christian Schools; St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), who "saved for the Church of Rome the Catholic Germany of today"; St. Therese...