Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something about a Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...
...Ambassador likes France, loves to advise and help Frenchmen, has helped a great deal, often with large cash contributions to French charities and War reconstructions...
Astounding, the news of these shouts spurred the German press to put forth special edition after special edition. Almost proven was the cynical theory that all Germans, from Friedrich the Great down, have nurtured a suppressed desire to be understood and warmly approved by choosey Frenchmen...
...deeply the hearts of Frenchmen were really stirred was shown, when "Iron Gustav" voiced a modest request to be received by Prime Minister Raymond Poincare-a request which was totally ignored...
...number of Communists holding seats in the Chamber of Deputies was halved last week as Frenchmen balloted overwhelmingly for candidates favorable to Conservative Prime Minister Raymond Poincare...