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...Many Frenchmen are opening their eyes in pained surprise at the Government's policy in the Ruhr. They argue that all cannot be well when the price of necessary commodities rises week by week, when industries are obliged to close for the want of coal. And they are beginning to worry about the cost of the venture...
Herr Gessler, Minister of Defense, made a speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...
...hours before Delcassé died, General Lyautey went under the surgeon's knife at Rabat, on the African shore of the Mediterranean. He may die. These two Frenchmen, one a politician and the other a Field Marshal, were chiefly responsible for the creation of France's colonial empire, a territory larger than the United States by 1,000,000 square miles...
Unconventionality marked yesterday's Symphony program, the thirteenth of the season. No symphony, no classic, no Germans, Frenchmen, Russians; none of the usual earmarks of a concert in Symphony Hall. But it was not merely unconventional, it was absorbing...
...picture is one to fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West...