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From the kaleidoscope of French politics a myriad names are projected daily, hourly, upon the news. Amid this evanescence and confusion only a few personalities are really permanent. Since the War exactly ten Frenchmen have held the 4 Presidencies and 17 Premierships of that period...
Georges Clemenceau (Nov. 16, 1917, to Jan. 17, 1920), 85, most illustrious of living Frenchmen, first internationally famed for his successful championship with Zola of Captain Dreyfus. (See TIME, Jan. 4, FRANCE, "Tiger, Tiger!" for a life sketch.) He retired from public life, embittered, when defeated for the Presidency by "that vol-au-vent" (windbag) Paul Deschanel...
...possesses only five dollars fancy he has caught you in the act of stealing one of them and you have started a fight. Last week the franc plunged suddenly from 40 to the dollar to nearly 50. Frenchmen, clutching crisp or crinkly banknotes, felt their wealth oozing from them as insidiously as though they grasped a handful of slime. What to do? "Naturally"-with blind instinctive no-logic-they hit out. At whom? At Herriot, whose ambitious folly had overturned the Briand Cabinet (TIME, July 26)? Yes. M. Herriot was mobbed, though he escaped. (See "Presidents, Premiers.") But there...
...corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue du Helder, six more U. S.-freighted charabancs were held up by a crowd of well-dressed Frenchmen-seemingly by no means roughs. Several policemen appeared, attempted to interfere, were restrained by the inceasing ugliness of the mob, advised "Les Amér- icains" (about half of these being English and German and less than one-quarter U. S. citizens) to climb from their busses and scuttle off. The advice was taken. No injuries...
Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have...