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...made public last week a memorandum from the U. S. practically negativing all the recommendations of the League of Nations Preparatory Commission for a disarmament conference TIME, May 24 et seq.). A British memorandum backing up the U. S. stand was reputed on high authority to be in preparation. Frenchmen felt that the slim chances for holding a League disarmament conference were evaporating...
...shooting, did not mention that Soviet Ambassador to Paris Rakovsky approached Foreign Minister Briand, last week, with a tentative offer to repay 55,000,000 francs ($10,615,000) per annum on the Tsarist debt to France. If this long frozen source of revenue has actually begun to thaw, Frenchmen may well rejoice; but it was rumored that the Soviet Government comes once again with a fair-seeming offer, but intends to hold out once again for further credits from French manufacturers which France is loath to grant...
...such was and is the fate of his genius. Germans discovered it early and compared M. Claudel to Goethe. Britons are coming to admit, at last, that Paul Claudel, though he is often as obscure as Shakespeare could be, has also some of the bard's creative imagination. Frenchmen are still of two minds about Claudel. "Ha!" snorted once, reputedly, M. Clemenceau, "he writes like a holy ghost-when did France ever have such an Ambassador...
...home. He brooded?shy, taciturn, lonely?while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes...
...saved the lives of several Frenchmen at that time. ... I have no sentiment about that. . . . It seemed to me very foolish to kill, torture or castrate all the French captured...