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...unwittingly insulted that elephant years ago. My memory, of course, cannot compare with his. No. I have never served in India, but I have served in Cairo. Was that elephant ever in Egypt? Or was it perhaps just a case of mistaken identity? To an elephant, you know, all Frenchmen must look alike...
Once again last week the indefatigable Paris-Soir produced a first-rate scandal which, like last winter's government-inspired international spy scare (TIME, March 26, April 2), distracted Frenchmen from the malodorous Stavisky scandal. The Soir's story...
...Frenchmen subscribe to those sentiments, but all were startled at the text of the 14 decrees. To slash government expenditures Premier Doumergue was preparing to retire one out of every ten government employes and to cut all Federal salaries. Politically it was playing with dynamite. In France with a population of 42,000,000 there are nearly as many non-military government employes as all the non-military Federal plus all the State employes in the U. S.* One Frenchman in 53 works for the Government. By lowering the compulsory retirement age. approximately 85,000 of these will be removed...
...This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never one to become needlessly excited, Frenchmen knew that things were bad indeed last week when he gave weight to wild stories of impending civil war in the Paris Press. At his order a special inquiry was started into the existence of secret arms depots of various political parties. With the assistance of Minister of the Interior...
Last week the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux was calling for a song to make Frenchmen drink more wine. In dead earnest it posted a 5,000-franc ($300) prize for the best Hymn to the Wine of Bordeaux, with words and music, submitted before April 12 by a person of French birth...