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...potential significance beyond any political speech or "dope" story about the Ethiopian war. After leaders of the various parties, including Fascist and Communist alike, had struck the keynote of unity and faith in democracy, the French Chamber, by an overwhelming vote dissolved the semi-military leagues and prohibited Frenchmen from carrying firearms. True the "freedom of the press" was curtailed by an act making punishable an incitement to assassination, but actually the freedom of the press under any government was never so all-inclusive as to include anarchism...
Crapouillot now appears bimonthly, has an average circulation of 50,000 which occasionally spurts to 100,000. Tall, handsome, 47, author of four novels, Editor Galtier-Boissière is famed as a gourmet and as the best-dressed of French literati. His immunity from libel suits makes knowing Frenchmen nod, credit his exposures with deadly accuracy...
...Malitz still has the floor: "Frenchmen, Belgians, Polaks, and Jew-Niggers ran on German tracks, swam in German pools.... Money was thrown away by promoters, but nobody could say that the international relationships between Germany and its enemies were bettered. Only a few treasonable persons and anti-German pacifists claim such things when delivering speeches in Geneva, Paris, and Prague...
...Justice's Palace. Twenty months ago two French Cabinets were unseated in succession by the Stavisky Scandal; the riots in the Place de la Concorde on Feb. 6, 1934 were the bloodiest in 63 years; and the present trial of Stavisky accomplices bristles with political dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested, some sympathy has always attached to the Great Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many...
Painter Monet heard the remark and thereafter scrupulously signed his canvases Claude Monet. Later Monet and Manet became fast French friends. Though their names, their style, their faces and their beards were very much alike, Frenchmen of the 19th Century had no great difficulty differentiating between them...