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From at least four aspects M. le Senateur Henry de Jouvenel is worthy of remark. He is editor of the great Paris daily Le Matin. He is husband to the superb, the mocking, subtle, obsessing actress "Colette."* He was recently French High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 and Sept. 6, 1926). And he has been for some years a leading member of the commission which goes each September to represent France at the Assembly of the League of Nations. In this role, M. le Senateur perpetrated last week a sensation...
...question was, wrote Editor de Jouvenel, whether the Great Powers are sincere in their ostensible trust in the League as an agency of international concord or whether they prefer to deal darkly with one another behind the League's back. Such dealing, de clared M. de Jouvenel, has been continuously the policy of Aristide Briand, although that statesman, it is well known, praises the League with high emotional fervor in his public speeches (TIME, Sept...
...sovereignty of France has been upheld in her Syrian League Mandate during the past year by two diametrically antithetical High Commissioners: the ruthless martinet, General Maurice Serrail, who was recalled after he bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925); and the genial editor of Le Matin, Henry de Jouvenel (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), who returned to Paris recently and reported Syria still far from pacified...
Syrian and Druse representatives, unofficially present, protested so violently against Senator de Jouvenel's report that they were expelled from the session, departed vociferously calling upon Heaven to witness the perfidy of the French...
Speaking in straightforward fashion, M. de Jouvenel described the bombardment of Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9) as a police necessity, characterized the savage Druse tribesmen as "inveterate trouble makers." Even as he spoke French machine guns were crackling in Syria. More than 100 Druses were slain during "mopping up" operations by French troops last week...