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...Four Frenchmen are correctly addressed as "M. le President...
Last week the dream of a 3,000-mile sub-Atlantic railway seemed to grow ever so slightly less mad, as Britons and Frenchmen got down again to dealing seriously with their half-century-old project of driving a double-track tunnel under the English Channel, 21 miles across. In London the French Ambassador, popular M. Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau, officially declared at a dinner tendered him in the House of Commons, "When the British Government and the British Nation are ready to build the tunnel we will build it with them. We very much desire...
...Those Frenchmen are all alike...
...snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"-this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany...
European Reaction. Englishmen seemed predominantly shocked by events in Belgrade, last week. Frenchmen were overjoyed, Germans vexed and Italians furious. Said London's famed Spectator: "The severity of the dictatorship is startling. It is a disagreeable spectacle to see a nation abandon parliamentarianism and rush into autocracy." In Paris, where King Alexander is regarded as the chief Balkan ally of France, virtually the whole press praised the new Dictatorship. The German Monarchist Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung approved "this fresh proof of the futility of parliamentarianism"; but the Socialist Vorwaerts sneered savagely at "the Surgeon-King who seeks to cure...