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That is to say, Saarlanders of today are racially and linguistically almost pure Germans. In Saarlouis they call their umbrellas Parplischirm, a bastard word, half French (parapluie), half German (Regenschirm), but not since the Paris Peace Conference have many intelligent neutrals believed that there were any great number of Frenchmen in the Saar...
With the aid of a spectacular last minute goal, the Flying Frenchmen from Mount St. Charles scored a 3-2 victory over the Freshman stickmen last night at the Rhode Island Anditorium in Providence. With two Harvard men in the penalty box. Thurier staged a solo dash to convert the tie into a winning score...
This staccato tone, appropriate in the youngest Premier France has ever had, galvanized hope that Frenchmen may be able to pull out of depression without going to Fascist, Nazi, Soviet or pinko extremes...
...seemed about to fall. The Colonel is France's No. 1 Fascist, grim-jawed leader of the Cross of Fire league of some 200,000 war veterans. Last winter they were in the vanguard of the riots against "rotten Parliamentarianism" in the Place de la Concorde when 28 Frenchmen were shot down (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week Paris tingled with electric rumors that the "Cross of Fire" was ready to rise and attempt a coup d'état, should Premier Doumergue be overthrown...
...Hotel Adlon was unable to attend the IHA conference. But German hotels have fared better than others on the Continent, largely because severe exchange restrictions have kept German tourists at home. It was also possible to buy cheap "registered marks" which could be spent only in Germany. More Frenchmen crossed the Rhine this season than in any year since the Retreat from Moscow...