Word: gascon
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...when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
...angry Poland, an expectant Russia, a wailing China and an Irish Free State brimming with cussedness were on the capable hands of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Geneva last week, and he is 72. Never once did the verve, élan and practical wisdom of this Gascon grandfather falter. He is the grand practitioner of the Old Diplomacy. He knows what his country wants and is not ashamed to live like a discriminating prince while getting it. Last week his immediate purpose was to wangle Soviet Russia into the League of Nations but he was preparing other, greater moves...
...Barthou to send the word that would mean for Bolshevik Russia a grand entry with appropriate nourish into the League of Nations. In one of their frequent talks by telephone last week. Comrade Litvinoff grew so impatient that he hung up on M. Barthou in vexation, but the Gascon grandfather only chuckled, "Tiens, tiens! Ces enfants! They must learn patience...
...soon as the Assembly goes through the motions of voting the thoroughly invited Soviet Union into the League. This was considered last week a mere formality, since M. Barthou had apparently corralled more than enough votes to put through the Assembly balloting this week. In Paris, therefore, the Gascon grandfather was again something of a hero. There remained, however, the fateful issue of his larger scheme, the Eastern Locarno Pact...
...Gascon grandfather's most significant journey was to London (TIME, July 16). There M. Barthou did more than patch up a quarrel which he had had earlier in the year at Geneva with Sir John Simon. He convinced Leader of the British Conservative (majority) Party Stanley Baldwin that the Nazi Reich is a real menace to the peace of Europe. It was after M. Barthou's visit that M. Baldwin startled the world by declaring for His Majesty's Government that the British frontier is now on the Rhine...