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Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
...English but occasionally to French correspondents, M. Cedard remarks upon Edward of Wales's curious lack of discrimination in matters of food and Queen Mary's downright stinginess.* Smart and suave, the royal chef knows perfectly how to give satisfaction. Last week there was a silent chorus of Gallic shrugs among London's best chefs when it appeared that the international Silver Jubilee Soup Recipe Competition (TIME, March 18), of which M. Cedard was a judge, had been won by a British Army cook sergeant, honest George Brown of Aldershot...
...appeared a U. S. translation of The Wanderer, by one Alain Fournier, an un-Gallic romantic masterpiece of the same order as W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions and Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Author Alain Fournier was killed in the War, and The Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine...
...feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace of mind and Author Bromfield's cinemarty ending, the girl who had given his house its sentimental associations appeared at this point-buxom and widowed now, but bristling with Gallic sense. She gave Tom a good talking to, sent him back to the U.S. to marry his long-suffering mistress...
France's determinations to keep the League of Nations alive at the cost of considerable insecurity to herself shows Gallic tenacity in its highest degree. Her forthcoming treaty with Russia would no doubt be a far more effective weapon in keeping Germany on the floor if Comrade Litvinov were allowed to have his way. The Russian Foreign Minister, realistic as ever, prefers an alliance providing for instant mobilization of both French and Soviet armies in the event of provocative action on the part of Germany. The French government, however, faithful as ever to its patient at Geneva, has insisted mulishly...