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Last winter Oldster Barthou had been on the shelf as a Senator for years when the Stavisky crisis made the prestige of his name a needed asset in the present Doumergue Cabinet of National Union. To everyone's surprise the 72-year-old Foreign Minister turned out to be more active than almost any of his predecessors. He was the first French Cabinet Minister ever to visit Poland. To do him honor Dictator Pilsudski last April canceled a pleasure trip to Egypt. Amid tremendous acclaim he was feted by Czechoslovakia at Prague, exchanged literary reminiscences with President Thomas Garrigue...
...Bucharest the Rumanian Chamber made him an honorary subject of King Carol II and gave him the first Rumanian passport valid for the Soviet Union, which he had just induced His Majesty to recognize (TIME, July 9). On a triumphal progress up the Danube to Jugoslavia, Oldster Barthou was welcomed by athletic young subjects of King Alexander who swam out to greet him with French flags clenched in their teeth...
...President Wulff, himself a judicious oldster of 62, blamed such victorian decadents as the late Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde and Charles Pierre Baudelaire for leading Paris on to rash absinthe
...Deal's political Generalissimo, Postmaster Farley, sent an old Democratic wheelhorse named Clement Lawrence Shaver. The last time the country heard of Mr. Shaver was just ten years ago, when as Democratic National Chairman he managed John W. Davis' magnificently unsuccessful run for the Presidency. Reason for sending Oldster Shaver back to his native State was to have him run for Senator against Old Deal Republican Senator Hatfield. Though he had the blessing of Mr. Farley, not as Postmaster General, not as party boss but simply as a good old friend, Candidate Shaver last week found himself running against eight...
...Press Benito Mussolini is the Benevolent Dictator who sees all, knows all, weighs every complaint and is never wrong. Last week Italian papers reached Manhattan with accounts of the "challenge to Mussolini" flung down by an oldster named Pietro Savio of 25 Via Calabria, Rome...