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...British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
After two years the police became impatient, suggested surrender. Daudet barricaded himself in L'Action offices, surrounded by hysterical young members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Henchmen). For three days the Camelots hurled jeers and inkpots at the police. Then dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe appeared in his yellow gloves, backed by several hundred gendarmes and three fire engines. Daudet yielded and was ensconced in a comfortable cell in the Prison de la Sante, where he was permitted meals prepared by Mme. Daudet...
Last week General Hans Geisler, commander of the independent air unit of the Luftwaffe which has been based near Catania, Sicily, since December, wrote an extraordinary bread-&-butter letter to the Italian Prefect of Catania...
Jean Chiappe was born a few blocks from the birthplace of Napoleon, and like the greater Corsican he hated the British. He was best known as Prefect of the Paris Police, a job he lost in the Stavisky scandal. In the years leading up to World War II he was an indefatigable behind-the-scenes worker against the British orientation of French policy and had been accused of plotting a Fascist coup. When the armistice came he naturally stood with Vichy, but until last week the Vichy rulers had found...
...more and more like herself, they have recently been annoyed by long-distance peeckers who watch them at play in their seaside bathing pool near Cannes. Hearing that a tourist agency advertises a special $1.50 boat excursion "to see the Windsors bathe," having appealed in vain to the French Prefect (who said with a desolated shrug, "The Mediterranean belongs to everyone"), the Duke had tall canvas screens put up around the pool...