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...maintains a modest home at Nsimalen, 70 miles away, and his visits to the hospital are less frequent than they used to be. That may be just as well. "His Eminence says prayers for the lepers," dryly notes the prelate responsible for Nyamsong, French-born Bishop André Loucheur of Mbam. "He conducts services and says Mass. But he doesn't do anything medical. The lepers don't really understand what...
...fact, some clerics in the diocese openly wonder why Leger bothered to come. The well-staffed leprosarium was founded by Bishop Loucheur and Sister Fran?oise Romaine 15 years ago, and now treats 3,000 patients at four clinics. Loucheur has also built a cathedral, numerous schools and 186 miles of roads, and has baptized 43,000 Africans. Léger's position is also ambiguous in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde, where he poses a protocol problem. "As a Cardinal," explains one official, "he outranks every diplomat in the country...
...Baruch's blue-&-gold sitting room stand autographed photographs of Orlando, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson at Versailles; another Versailles picture of Louis Loucheur, Lloyd George and Baruch, with Winston Churchill standing behind, like the freshman he was; of Clemenceau in 1922; of William Gibbs McAdoo; Cordell Hull; Lord Cecil; the War Industries Board...
...Deputies. Uncle Cambon got her a card for the President's box. "All the lovely friends of the Ministers coaxed to be given cards to it." Several of the statesmen had a signal system to let their lady friends know when it was time to go. Minister Loucheur passed his hand over his bald head three times. Minister Daladier blew his nose furiously five or six times. Deputy Ybarnégaray, later Minister for Youth & Family in the Vichy Government, boldly waved a sheet of paper. "Oh, those gentlemen," said Head Usher Bouchonnet. who had the worldliness...
Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak...