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...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...
...again came the pale shadow of Alexander Stavisky, almost forgotten for a few days. France's Minister of War is Marshal Henri Pétain. Honest and ingenuous, he is serving his first trick in a Council of Ministers and hence has little understanding of the terrific pressure, the secret wire-pulling, under which equally honest Minister of Justice Henry Cheron has attempted to conduct the Stavisky investigation...
...Spanish heels, cas tanets and fingernails, accompanied by a troupe of wriggling gypsies. A fat, sad-faced Russian named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water, small sniffs of whiskey, benedictine, gin, tomato juice or absinthe. Between turns, bland oldtime Nikita Balieff makes impudent speeches in the "English lahngwidge...
...deeper (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week not a hunch but lack of cable held him back. Down went the bathysphere, down past all previous records, down to 3,028 ft. At that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept at the new record depth for five minutes. "I'll tell the world," said Dr. Beebe, after he crawled out on deck, "that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives...
France's other Cabinet General, Minister of War Pétain. moved to strengthen France's land forces. For the first time since the War French reservists will be called to the colors this summer for two weeks training at frontier fortifications...