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...good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds the office from which bowlegged Max was promoted: "Chief of the General Staff...
...work Marshal Pétain, 74, gracefully out of his post last week and make room for General Weygand, 64, the War Ministry declared that "Marshal Pétain has sought retirement for several years," but that even now he cannot be spared. He was asked last week "to contribute his great experience and high authority to a new task as difficult as it is delicate." The task: to arrange coordination between the Ministries of Air, War and Navy in such a way as to provide in war time a complete and rational air barrier around the whole of France...
...doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect, has been used as a proof of the new quantum theory of light...
Mentors and officials include Major J. K. Boles, Field Artillery, Team Cap tain; Major J. S. Hatcher, Ordnance, Adjutant; Lieutenant S. R. Hinds, Infantry, Coach...
Evidence that Western Samoans have turned envious eyes on their eastern brothers under the administration of U. S. Cap tain Graham in Pagopago was published by a potent spokesman for the Man, the N. Z. Samoa Guardian...