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...would like to return to my students," said old Professor Segni with a broad smile. For the moment, President Gronchi and resigned Premier Segni (who may be asked to serve again) were too busy welcoming French President René Coty to Rome to give any attention to forming a new government. Though Coty's state visit caught them in a Cabinet crisis, Italians were not embarrassed. "After all," said a Roman politician, "Coty is a Frenchman. He will understand...
There was a hush of astonishment, then a thunderclap of applause. Weeks later in the election of 1906, Liberal Party Candidate Joseph Pierre René Hilaire Belloc reaped his reward by scraping home in South Salford null a majority of 852 and becoming the first and last British M.P. to win a seat despite being a French-born Catholic, an author, a confessed radical and an avowed lover of good drink...
...secret-service man must have many special qualities, but the one of least service to himself, or his country, is too ready and human a sympathy with the causes he is supposed to keep an eye on. Switzerland's Attorney General René Dubois, who personally operated the country's efficient 40-man counterintelligence organization, could not help but feel for France in her North African dilemma. A modest, hard-working tracker of spies, 48-year-old René Dubois, born on the French side of Switzerland and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, spoke with impatience...
...have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless, said huge, tanned Lieut. General René Cogny, French commander in Morocco, just back from the region last week: "I am not worried about the military problem. But what is serious is the political side of the story...
...Grand Maneuver. An exquisite exercise in the art of film, all manner and no matter, directed by one of the screen's old masters, René Clair (TIME...