Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
...billet not too doux, M. Charles Maurras, Political Director of L'Action Français, Royalist journal of Paris, told Minister of the Interior Abraham Schrameck that a few thousand "patriots" would "shoot him like a dog" if he did not cease interfering with Royalist organizations. The matter went to court and last week M. Maurras was sentenced by default to two years' imprisonment. Appeal was entered...
This cluttered journal proceeds with all the ingenious disorder of its subject's existence. Had he been a woman, the title could have read: "Anatole France with her hair down"- bodily hair, mental and spiritual. He asks the secretary, in a study crammed with sacred art-works and in the tone one uses to inquire after another's liver: "Have you been liberated from religious beliefs ?" There are appalling dinner conversations, loquacious walks about Paris, disconnected imperies, prodigious exclamations on a thousand passing matters-the necessity for affection, archaeological finds, the shrewd drinking of Rabelais, the greatness...
From Washington came vague proposals that a conference might soon be called to consider the question of abolishing extraterritoriality (immunity of foreigners from the jurisdiction of Chinese courts) in accordance with the Washington Conference treaties. This suggestion left the British stone cold. The Star, London evening journal, summed up the British point of view when it referred to the development of Shanghai by foreign, capital from a swamp to a great commercial centre. It added: "If the American Government really meant to hand all this over to a corrupt and ignorant Chinese Mandarin, half magistrate and half bandit, American merchants...
Died. Sam Crane, 71, famed baseball writer, once "the greatest second baseman of the major leagues" ; in Manhattan, of pneumonia contracted while accompanying the Giants on their western trip. For many years he wrote of baseball for the New York Evening Journal and was famed for the gravity with which he handled...