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...Eighty-five men, no women, were White House banquet guests that night. In the State Dining Room, President Hoover was the big centre nail of the horseshoe table. On his right Premier Laval, left Ambassador Paul Claudel of France, nearby Marshal Pétain. A large assortment of bigwig publisher-editors included Arthur Brisbane, who wrote in his next Today: "Who sees only 'peasant ancestry' in the face of Laval would see only a peasant woman in the Mona Lisa face. . . . Don't play poker with him. . . . The President looked weary...
...already accepted the power given him by the machine, this vicarious power that moves mountains, that flies beneath the sea and through the air, that transports him so swiftly from place to place, as real power. He has ac cepted it as his own power. ... To at tain real power, of the mind, of the spirit, is a long slow process. Why should man go to all this trouble when he can so easily attain this vicarious power?" "It is a factual age, and in a factual age women will always rule. In the world of fact every woman...
...backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
...France's doorstep? Had he considered the possible consequences? Premier Laval was polite. He had considered. . . . Mais non. Without political guarantees from Germany, there was nothing more he could do. Ambassador von Hoesch left and Premier Laval had another, slightly sinister interview with two other gentlemen: Marshals Pétain and Lyautey, commanders of the French Army...
Oddly enough, General Weygand, who will not tackle this job but will leave it to Marshal Pétain, is one of the best co-ordinators French militarism has ever produced. His star turn during the War was to mingle with and co-ordinate the "allied" military leaders who so easily quarreled with the French command to which they were subordinate under Generalissimo