Word: sident
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...resounding slap at Premier Blum by famed old Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister. "It is, as you say, the duty of every Government to hear both the employers' and the workers' sides," roared M. Caillaux at M. Blum, "but you Monsieur le Président du Conseil, have shown preference for the predominance of a class -the proletariat-which has the right to our solicitude but which is not the only class in the country...
...post-War diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...
...East Prussia, Reichsführer Hitler, Field Marshal von Mackensen and many another stood at attention in impressive ceremony as the body of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg was transferred from a side tower of the massive Tannenberg war memorial to a permanent vault in the centre tower. Over the national hero's coffin lay the old German war flag with the iron cross on red, white and black. At half-mast everywhere else in Germany only the new Nazi swastika banner was allowed...
...French bombing planes of maximum size thundering in circles all day over Belgrade made sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun feel safer. M. le Président also had with him War Minister Marshal Pétain, a company of steel-helmeted French infantry, 200 bluejackets and 50 picked detectives of the Sûreté Nationale...
...Paul is potent now chiefly because the name of HINDENBURG is still so great that Chancellor Hitler is glad to buy this talisman by humoring the President's simple wants. He was more than prepared to bow to the Reichspräsident's will and keep on in office Old Paul's "best comrade" and favorite among all his bygone Chancellors, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, a brother officer in the Feldmarschall's old regiment...