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...Heckled as to the exact meaning of the Lausanne settlement, gentleman's agreement and Accord de Confiance last week Premier Herriot told the Chamber flatly: "They mean that Frenchmen cannot be asked to pay more than they receive...
...Frenchmen were proud last week that they had lost no submarine since 1928, whereas the British Navy had lost three. The French first-class submarine Promethée of 2,000 tons (estimated cost $2,000,000) was maneuvering on the surface of the English Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning...
Paleolithic man ate snails. So do modern Frenchmen. Every year thousands of them are plucked from trees, bushes, walls and the good soil of Burgundy, are pulled rudely out of their shells, boiled, dressed with garlic, stuffed back and served up sizzling hot on tin plates to be downed between gulps of rich red Chambertin. So delectable is the escargot that the best breeds of him are becoming scarce. To restrict snail-plucking, the Department Council of the Cote d'Or met lately at Dijon, soon found itself embroiled in a hopeless argument over the question of what...
...well have turned in his grave at the appointment of Baron von Neurath as his successor. On the other hand Chancellor von Papen may decide to head the German delegation himself. Paradoxically, the Chancellor is rumored, as a man of business and trade, to have notably friendly relations with Frenchmen whose moneyed interests parallel...
Four times as many men as women commit suicide, except in Spain where the ratio is three men to one woman. In Spain more married men than bachelors kill themselves. Elsewhere the bachelors are more often self-destructive. Frenchmen and Italians are less suicidal than Norwegians, Swedes or Germans...