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...Greeted Pan American pressmen...
Such were the tidings in Paris last week when Captain Gordon Canning, official representative of Abd-el-Krim, arrived to initiate pourparlers for peace between the Riff and France (see CABINET NOTES). While Captain Canning dickered behind closed doors with M. Ponsot, the French Undersecretary for African affairs, pressmen drew from other English-born officers of the Riffian delegation many picturesque details anent the Riff...
...vicinity were flown at half mast in his honor. Allegedly, he realized that he might some day be restrained as insane and therefore kept steam up at all times, ready for instant escape. His wealthy Manhattan cousins, R.F. and W.B. Cutting, long ago evolved a formula for dealing with pressmen, declared themselves "ignorant of Mr. Brown's plans...
...battalions of pressmen he declared with a twinkle, "A young girl would not take me and I would not take an old one. Whom could I marry...
...support this charge M. Raditch produced a witness than whom none could be more pertinent: M. Liuba Jevanocitch, a supposed henchman of the Premier and Vice President of the Government (Radical) Party. Together M. Raditch and M. Jevanocitch denounced the Premier and his son to pressmen. Loudly they demanded that the Narodna Skupstina (National Assembly) be convened...