Word: pasquiers
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Upon a quay profusely decked with flowers and after a salute of 19 guns, Mr. Davis was received by the French Governor of Cochin-China, M. Krautheimer. Reason: the exquisite old Governor General of all French Indo-China, His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, was in Paris, France, complaining about all the trouble Communists have been making in his bailiwicks (TIME, March 23). But native Reds made at the Davises not even faces...
...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...
...French Indo-China laughed at its Governor General's discomfiture, but M. Pasquier knew what to do. He flew to Paris, a bold feat which restored his prestige. For the first time in three years the High Colonial Council is meeting in Paris, pondering how to stamp out the Reds...