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...himself admits, is probably politeness. Mr. Maurois has become too well acquainted with his subject to be other than grateful. That is why the aloof sarcasm of Strachey is largely absent. Mr. Maurois attempts at all times to understand. In "A Private Universe" he gives advice to young Frenchmen departing for England and America. "Give logic a rest while you are over there," he tells the first. "But enjoy the general spectacle." To the second: "Fashion within yourself an America of which you will be worth: that is the only America you will discover...
...Frenchmen and Belgians who buy their meat in shops identified by a great gilded horse's head would have been seriously upset last week to read an account which England's Manchester Guardian succinctly labelled "A Shocking Narrative." In England exists an International League Against the Export of Horses for Butchery. The Guardian's informant was a representative of this League who with a veterinary surgeon witnessed the landing in Havre of 77 worn out horses from the Argentine. They were so disturbed by what they saw that they followed the horses to Vaugirard, whence they were...
...horses were badly injured while being swung ashore, but they were beaten and prodded violently with sticks. We watched one man strike a horse 35 times. ... At Vaugirard they arrived exhausted and in a deplorable condition. They had had no food or water for 50 hours. The Frenchmen said they must not have food or water for fear they got the gripes. All were lame when they reached the stables. These horses were consigned for butchering but they would not be fit to eat. They would be full of toxins produced by fatigue and by absorption from the bowels...
Glowing with splendid plans to help five River Danube countries with a round population of 62 millions.* kindly James Ramsay MacDonald and such close Cabinet friends as his Foreign Secretary. Sir John Simon, lavished hospitality last week on the Frenchmen who had made the plans...
...France the current budget (made to "balance" by even more irregular bookkeeping) has been publicly declared by high French fiscal authorities to be almost $150,000,000 in the red, a bookkeeping irregularity of three billion francs. Reason: the French parliamentary election next month after which Frenchmen will have to lay upon themselves such vexatious taxes as the U. S. Congress was last week inventing...