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"The sole object of all these brutalities," he said, "is to annihilate French maritime power, cut off the metropolis from the Empire and isolate her from the rest of the world. . . .
Fearing went to New York from his home town of Chicago in 1924-a time when life in the U. S. metropolis was ripe for the mirroring his style could give it. Boom-time big talk was growing louder and more insistent; while an implacable depression was creeping into the...
"When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It...
Bustling Montreal, biggest Canadian city (818,000) and No. 3 French-speaking metropolis of the world,* has a Gallic taste in mayors, and last week she exercised it again. Her last mayor was flamboyant Camillien Houde, who distinguished himself in a number of ways. He got the city into so...
"Street traffic in Moscow has improved tremendously. ... I was amazed at the number and excellence of taxicabs and private motor cars which circulate now in the Soviet metropolis. . . .