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When Pierre Laval took the reins of Vichyfrance, many U.S. citizens thought that U.S.-Vichy relations were all over but the shooting. Not so the State Department. U.S. diplomats thought up a new device to put Laval on the spot. One morning last week Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and State Department's Samuel Reber landed at Vichy's Caribbean island of Martinique, went straight to the offices of bearded Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner of Vichy's possessions in the area (Martinique, sister island Guadeloupe and French Guiana...
Wally Borg, the big boy who played with balloons, saved a lot of Bursar's cards by arriving after a half hour of disorganized entertainment. Ann White, singer of "sophisticated songs," sang a few, entitled "Oh Mr. Hoover," "Queenie's Quaint," "Susie Smith," and "It's Too Good for the Average...
Papal Count. Laval's politically ambitious daughter Jose, swarthy as her father, became his right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
...opinion in opposition to that of the paper's editorial board. But that made no difference to a number of women's civic groups in Evanston; to them, the article represented subversive forces gnawing away at the University's roots, and they didn't hesitate to tell everybody--including Hoover's G-men--what they thought about...
...career diplomat, the newly elected president had occupied the ticklish Nipponese post since his appointment by President Hoover in 1932. But this assignment was only the climax of a career marked by the handling of unmerous delicate situations, including management of the Berlin Embassy in 1917, and the negotiation of the American-Turko Treaty...