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...Royal Canadian Air Force field at Dartmouth from which land-based aircraft could operate. There are also land-plane fields at Truro, Halifax and Yarmouth, across the Bay of Fundy from Franklin Roosevelt's summer vacation spot at Campobello Island. (North of Halifax is the village of Grand Pré where Britain's ruthless handling in 1755 of a political minority was hexametred by Longfellow in Evangeline...
...panels of monologue giving the historical setting, sketching the traces of old times from which the author has imagined his scenes. The panorama extends from the Pueblo Indian civilization that "watched the steel and silver helmets of the invaders spark with sunlight" in the distance, to an imitation Hollywood pr'meer conducted by a promoter in a sound truck under a local marquee. It is an eventful 400 years...
...Bienvenu [Welcome], M. le Président...
...Brazil had made up and were again exchanging Ambassadors. To Berlin will go Brazilian Under Secretary of State Dr. Cyro de Freitas Valle, onetime first secretary of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington and a cousin of Foreign Minister Dr. Oswaldo Aranha; to Rio de Janeiro will go Dr. Curt Prüfer, onetime German Minister to Ethiopia, chief of the personnel of the German Foreign Office...
Most likely to be M. le Président No. 6 to finish the full term of office is the incumbent, Albert Lebrun, whose seven years as "prisoner of Marianne" end May 10. Last week, the Cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier set the date for the next election. On April 5 the members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will, according to tradition, travel to Versailles, eleven miles from Paris, constitute themselves into a National Assembly and, in the Palace of Louis XIV, elect by majority vote the 15th President of the Republic...