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...Five" last week. Ostensibly they came to attend a routine session of the League Assembly, but proceeded virtually to ignore it and negotiate at high pressure in their hotels. Indiscreet, a member of M. Paul-Boncour 's staff blabbed to correspondents what scores of highly-placed Frenchmen think but dare not say: "Unless the Conference succeeds, France and Poland will have to launch against Germany a preventive...
From the first, last week, there was no doubt of the Bonnet Lottery's smashing success. Long before dawn impatient queues formed all over France in front of banks, post offices, tax-collection bureaus, tobacco shops. Doors opened at 9 a. m., Frenchmen shoved and fought to buy. By 9:30 every ticket in the first batch of 2,000,000 was sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing...
...Chicago, Dr. Erich Koerner & Richard Scheutz, Germans, descended into a watery ditch. At Albion, Mich., about 213 mi. from Chicago, Louise and Eleanor Hall, daughters of an Albion College professor, were summoned to interpret for two for- eigners who had come down in a balloon: Georges Ravaine & Georges Blanchet, Frenchmen...
...keen Dutchmen representing a Pacific empire of 60,000,000 people; two Frenchmen speaking for 20,000,000 French subjects in the Pacific; a strong delegation from Canada, the last led by Sir Robert Falconer; separate delegations from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines...
...Frenchmen, girding themselves to defend their franc and keep it on gold, feel they have need of every weapon. They know that they possess Western Europe's most potent army. Last week their Navy Minister, pompous Georges Leygues, drew deafening Paris cheers with a speech which made British naval experts chuckle...