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...riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing. It was not to the Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe...
Pierre Cot is a scrappy, bespectacled Radical-Socialist of 41 who is generally regarded as one of France's smartest young politicians. He has held the post of Air Minister off & on since 1933. His biggest feat was the merging of five unimportant airlines into potent Air France. Last week his prestige from this achievement was, temporarily at least, forgotten as the result of a fiasco which has been in the making for a year and last week attained its climax...
...maximum money's worth for the admission charge of six francs (25?). Smart U. S. citizens just landed from the French Line's Normandie, jampacked last week the Exposition's small, select Restaurant La Normandie. whose manager is the ship's Associate Purser John Henry. Smartest large restaurant is Le Roi George with two orchestras and Maitre d'Hotel Albert of Maxim's. Swankly atop the Pavilion d'Elegance perches the Ritz-Hotel-managed Club des Oiseaux (Birds' Club...
...with an intimation via Paris' famed Pertinax (Andre Geraud) that today the Little Entente is almost on the rocks. This is not only true but appalling to Europeans who have faith in Democracy and to others with a passion to see Communism come. Driving through Belgrade last week, Smartest Little Statesman Benes knew that, as Pertinax said, his visit "bids fair to mark an important turning point in the history of Central Europe." By his mere presence he generated in the Skupshtina (Yugoslav Chamber of Deputies) frantic criticism of Premier Stoyadinovich as a potential wrecker of the Little Entente...
...friendly gestures were for President Benes to decorate Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, her son King Peter, and Regent Prince Paul's wife Princess Olga, after which Mrs. Benes was decorated in return. Another day there was a palace banquet and before President Benes left for home the "Smartest Little Statesman" was so much on his toes as to flatter Boy King Peter with the gift of a gold-fitted dressing case featuring a razor...