Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at 2 a. m. two black and one white Frenchmen entered a Mont martre cabaret. Hardly had they sat down when a patron, said to be a U.S. citizen, complained to the manager. The manager crossed over to the trio and requested them to leave. They refused. The manager persisted, argued, entreated, ordered and finally threw them...
Foreign Office issued a communiqué, directing the police to protect Frenchmen at all costs, regardless of color, and threatening offensive tourists with expulsion if they tried to import Jim Crow tactics. France needs the loyalty of her colored colonies even more than she needs the cash of American tourists...
Constantinople is supposed to view this with suspicion, perhaps inspired by Frenchmen who object to Turks with American minds. The Turkish Relief Commission views with delight Turkish gratitude for Mr. Crane's plan, and expects Professor John Dewey of Columbia to go to Turkey as Mr. Crane's personal representative at Mr. Crane's expense. Professor Dewey professes to view with incredulity any such development...
...paper says that, although Britishers in Paris " remain gentlemen, with waistcoats and yellow kids, many Frenchmen follow the lead of Americans who have left their vests in New York, their gloves in Washington, and arrive with naked hands and floating cravats...
...conference, Japanese and Chinese, Germans and Frenchmen, mingled fraternally in a common allegiance to a common ideal of international goodwill...