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...which he had been a part for so long. As head of the State, he had a chance for the first time in a generation to appreciate the layman's point of view as governments fell, week after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely...
...announce that the plight of Austria was quite as vital to France as anything happening at home. Premier Doumergue and Ministers Herriot, Tardieu, and Barthou formed a sort of Directorate of Four to take up the problem at once. This was followed by an official footnote to reassure Frenchmen that this group had no intention of becoming a Dictatorship like the famed Directorate of First Consul Bonaparte...
...Frenchmen: From the foreign land where a law of banishment cruelly detains me, I bow with sad emotion before the dead and wounded who, at the cost or the risk of their lives, accepted the challenge to probity and honor given by an unworthy Government in its panic-stricken impotence...
...gleaming cylinders of neatly piled gold pieces, ready to pay off the winners at one table. They were U. S. $5, $10 and $20 coins, far from their U. S. Treasury home. Last year the directors had bought 20,000,000 francs worth. Briefly they considered luring gold-hungry Frenchmen by using them as chips, giving players the genuine feel of gold. But they were afraid that hoarders would buy the precious coins, walk out without playing. Last week Frenchmen were obliged to play before they could collect the coins, the only kind of minted gold many a Frenchman...
...Affaire Jones is generously interspersed with French phrases, but they are so simple that one can not be annoyed with the author, one case excepted, when he alludes to the famous five letter word of Cambronne; but since the word evokes much laughter from the insanely practical Frenchmen, one may strike on the solution of this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions...