Word: pasquiers
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...next big job, it seemed last week, will be in pacifying French Indo-China. Two thousand of the total Legion personnel of 14,000 have already reached Saigon, and more are being hurried thither from Syria and Morocco. In Paris last week was His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China, come at the urgent request of the High Colonial Council to discuss native unrest in his Far East bailiwick...
...Pasquier is one of the most exquisite old men in all the world (see cut). He has on his hands 285,000 square miles and more than 20,000,000 natives. Just about a year ago they first began a riot on a Communistic basis, the more literate natives having read and ill-digested some tons of pamphlets smuggled in from Russia. Russians are propagandizing hotly in Indo-China primarily because the Soviet State charges and believes that France is its most dangerous enemy in Europe...
When exquisite Governor-General Pasquier announced that he must go to Paris, cunning plotters so dexterously tampered the ship on which he planned to sail that His Excellency actually went aboard in full regalia and settled down in his suite de luxe before it was discovered that the propellers would not work...
Peter, unhappy ward of swaggering Colonel Ibbetson, lives in the memory of his childhood when as Gogo Pasquier he played in perfect happiness with Mimsey Seraskier. Mimsey grows up to be the lovely Duchess of Towers with whom Peter falls in love. In Paris, near their old home in Passy, the grown-up Gogo and Mimsey meet again. She teaches him that dreams are more important than reality. He kills Colonel Ibbetson and, committed to life imprisonment, lives in a blissful dreamworld with his Mimsey until the Duchess of Towers passes out of real life and comes to take...