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...monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent de luxe, M. Bertrand de Jouvenel, son of the late, great French Senator & Ambassador Henri de Jouvenel. In Paris the Chamber had just voted to ratify a Franco-Soviet military alliance (see p. 18). Herr Hitler did not want it to pass the French Senate and become binding as a possible check on Germany...
Died, Henry de Jouvenel, 59, French Senator, statesman and diplomat, head of the French Congress for the Defense of Peace, onetime Minister of Public Instruction, onetime editor of Le Matin, divorced husband of pert Novelist Colette; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight...
...Italy," wrote Critic Give Bell last April in The London Studio, "has not produced a great painter since Canaletto" (1697-1768), but before Canaletto Italy produced enough great painters for all time. To set forth the latter fact spectacularly to France and the world seemed to Henry de Jouvenel, brilliant French diplomat, journalist and Italophile, an admirable way for Italy and France to clasp hands more tightly against Adolf Hitler. Last week he had assembled in Paris' Petit Palais a collection of Italian old masters that was in fact "the greatest the world has ever seen...
...moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini who knows what he wants and acts accordingly...
...pouting-lipped Adolf gave in-barely 40 minutes before eager, dynamic Benito was to address his Senate. Excited Italian socialites, squeezed like sardines into the Senate galleries, pointed knowingly to the Diplomatic Box. In the front row all smiles sat British Ambassador Sir Ronald Graham, French Ambassador Henry de Jouvenel and German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell-these three ready to squiggle. Just behind them, nervous as squirrels, perched the diplomats of the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) and Poland. They understood from France, their great ally, that she had gouged out of the Pact all possibility that it may lead...