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...Never Mention Communism." The Peace Front must become a bigger & better Communist machine. This must be achieved mainly through good works (with some Tammany touches). Explained Delegate Remo Scapini of Pisa...
...Austro-German Zollverein or customs union, which Frenchmen suspect, probably accurately, is only a first step toward a complete Austro-German political union (TIME, March 30, April 6). Anti-Briandists insisted that as Foreign Minister he should have foreseen, should have prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken in his forecasts as well as his facts." Others...
With an alert memory he prepares his speeches with his wife, delivers them on the Senate floor with slashing vigor. His oratory is spoiled by a crudity of voice and diction. He does not often enter rough-&-tumble Senate debate. Unlike blind Georges Scapini of the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 7) he has never been known to sway his colleagues at any critical time or on a matter of great moment...
...Paris the deputies were not calm. Wrathful lacemakers' representatives demanded revenge duties of 200% on U. S. automobiles and parts, prohibitive duties on other articles. Up rose Georges Scapini, famed "blind deputy" who lost his sight in the War, whose affliction seems to have given him a detachment and a vision denied most of his colleagues...
Accompanying Mr. Scapini to Boston is Frederick H. Allen '80 of New York who has been appointed chairman of the committee for his reception by President Coolidge. The lecture will be held in the Faculty Room of the Living Room of the Union, and will be directly proceeded by a small dinner which is being given for the visitor by the members of the French department. The talk is open to all Union members...