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...showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped as a sailor. Six years...
...Italo-Ethiopian crisis of last winter, it would have been beneficial to have known beforehand that "Sanctions" as the League of Nations chose to apply them were going to be worse than useless. If it had been further known that the British were secretly playing tit-tat-toe with Italy and France behind Geneva's back (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935, et seq.}, the League states would never have voted Sanctions. In lost trade, Sanctions must have cost at least $275,000,000-a particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been...
...Aurlon, sells them to her, begs her to come back. Simultaneously the two unscrupulous businessmen, having trouble with their dictator, ask Madame St. Aurlon to persuade Regis to return to the throne. She flies to him at Cannes. After various vicissitudes, Regis successfully stages a coup d'état. Final scene shows him and his commoner "friend" standing on the palace balcony wildly cheered by the throng below...
...Government's arming of a "Red militia" of workers was what definitely took this week's revolt out of the traditional formula of Latin coups d'état and put it into the class of Russia's revolution of 1917. Last week 6,000 tough Asturian miners marched down from the North to Madrid's assistance, as the Army rebels marched up from the South. Declared the Spanish Government: "Spanish citizens! The movement in insurrection has been subjugated absolutely and it is necessary not to lose the fight...
...honor is occupied by "The Bull," heavy-jowled Edouard Daladier, Minister of Defense. Not long ago M. Daladier wrested control of the Radical Socialist Party from paunchy old Edouard Herriot, also a frequent guest of the Marquise de Crussol, and the possibility of a Left coup d' état is never mentioned without mentioning the Bull, who today commands the Army...