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...tough little Frenchmen were landed south as well as north of Narvik. Dragging their mountain artillery through profound snowdrifts, up incredible declivities, they slowly encircled Rombak Heights, moving patiently from crag to crag to blast German machine-gun nests on crags opposite...
Seeing that Reynaud, after more than a week of premiership, appeared to offer only the same old Sitzkrieg, many Frenchmen could not see why Daladier should not be recalled to re-form his Cabinet, again without Socialists, and get on with the unexciting policy urged by nearly all military experts: to strangle the Germans until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French...
Professor Bruns got pretty angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...defense of public morals in Istanbul rushed one Ibrahim Hakki Konyali, a Turk of doubtful learning but steely ethic. Haled into court at his insistence was the publisher of the first Turkish translation of Aphrodite, by Pierre Louys, for 50 years a classic of carnality among Frenchmen and U. S. undergraduates. Istanbul bubbled like a hookah. Enlightened Turkish newspapers were highly incensed with Ibrahim Hakki Konyali. Then on Istanbul book stalls appeared a new Aphrodite, adorned with a photograph of a sculptured nude, billed as "the book everyone is talking about." The author: Ibrahim Hakki Konyali...
...alive." As a good Mohammedan, he has three wives and seven legitimate children. "Two wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks of the Seine by pointing at the river and jabbering in pidgin French about how big and dangerous French crocodiles...