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...hats, morning coats, decorations-all the regalia of a brilliant diplomatic party last week adorned the bodies of virtually all of France's Cabinet Ministers, most of her home diplomats, many of her social leaders, in one of the gloomiest caverns in Paris-the Gare du Nord. The notables had gathered to say good-by to a good friend, wit, gourmet, an artisan of tact, a monocle-bearing, well-dressed Briton, Sir Eric Phipps, 64, retiring from the British diplomatic service after two years as Ambassador to France and after 30-odd in the service of his Kings...
...crucial hour arrived for Paris. At the Gare St. Lazare, a train stood with steam up. Troops with fixed bayonets stalked the cold, empty station. Soldiers tossed mail sacks aboard. At 4: 10 the engineer climbed into...
...maker of stained glass, later became the favorite pupil of the academic painter, Gustave Moreau. Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend, Ambroise Vollard, returns to a mysterious home to paint, in brutal black outline, with dark glowing reds and blues like medieval stained glass, figures of clowns and sufferers from his imagined ''legendary countries...
...with the result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
...take all the precautions we did not take when King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated!" snapped a high official of the French Secret Police. As a result of these precautions the arriving Fascist Dictator, be spectacled and intensely pious Austrian Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, never pulled in at the Gare de I'Est at all. Just inside the walls of Paris, the Austrian's special train stopped at a tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger...