Word: matin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Writing in Le Matin, he announced his resignation as a member of the French delegation to the League; and forthwith proceeded to attack its chairman, his onetime chief, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, a statesman who has been ten times Premier of France...
...Among White House visitors last week were: Edward N. Hurley (onetime Shipping Board Chairman), who discussed the automobile business; Mayor Fred Bauer of Lynn, Mass., who discussed the shoe business; Jules Sauerwein, foreign editor of Le Matin, Paris, who discussed French business; National Committee Chairman William M. Butler, who discussed business and politics. The President also received Sosislav Antoniyevitch, new Minister from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who presented letters of credence...
...meantime Balto, onetime lead dog for Seppala, super-canine transporter of serum to Nome, yawned in durance vile and warm at Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 28). He may have reflected that every dog has his matinée, wondered who was leading them...
Significance. Le Matin and the Herald Tribune printed flat denials of their expose by officials of the British Foreign Office, side by side with the expose itself. The question of real significance is not whether the charges are true .or false, but whether any League member state will attempt to secure denunciation of the Treaty of Tirana when it is deposited with the League of Nations. If that point is raised, and if Great Britain stands behind Italy in quashing denunciation, the drift of events will be sufficiently clear...