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Last week Henri, Jean Ill's hitherto un obtrusive Dauphin, showed unexpectedly the stuff of which practical politicians are made. Dropping the aloof dignity which is the badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Fran...
Such talk France has not heard for a generation from the House of Guise, until recently too refined and well bred to take the political arena. Last week the King's Henchmen at Genoa were admittedly no menace, as yet, to the Government at Paris, but unrest is stirring deep today in France. The National Millers' Association has openly defied the Government's fixed minimum price for grain and is buying below this price in unpunished violation of the law. Last week silk manufacturers of Lyons denounced the Doumergue Government for "sacrificing the export trade of France...
Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...
That race will go down in yachting history. Yankee crossed the starting line to windward but Rainbow crept past her on the first tack. A sudden puff of wind tore Yankee's Genoa jib. By the time she had replaced it, Rainbow had increased her lead. When the boats rounded the buoy 15 miles from the start, Rainbow was leading by 1 min. 34 sec. Coming back both set parachute spinnakers and Yankee began to gain. For 15 miles she inched up on Rainbow. A half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast...
...Wambaugh. She used to teach economics and history at Radcliffe and Wellesley. Last week the League of Nations picked her, with two men, to umpire that headline event Woodrow Wilson scheduled for sometime in 1935-the Saar plebiscite. The other umpires are Italy's Bindo Galli, president of Genoa's Court of Appeals, and Holland's L. A. Nypel, Supreme Court Justice. The three umpires will try to see that the Saar citizens, including Germans who lived in the area when the Versailles Treaty was signed (June 28, 1919), vote "freely and fairly" on three propositions: going...