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Stubborn Josef Stalin was still trying to avoid last week the mistake that crippled Imperial Russia?war with Japan. But events darkly occurring in Manchuria kept all the Russias on the qui vive...
Cecil had tried to read was drowned out by roars of "Vive la France...
...some short while this sort of thing went on. A man who had sat long in a cafe would suddenly spring up upon his chair and shout out, "Vive L'Empire," it didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked...
...piled their fighting planes full of flowery bouquets at Havre last week, zoomed aloft with warlike clatter. Circling around the incoming 5. S. He de France, they dived and swooped, strewed the great ship's decks with roses. Amid tootling whistles, dinning sirens, blaring bands, and frantic shouts of "vive Laval!" the Premier of France came home and brought home Daughter Jose. To French reporters she babbled, "America is a fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however, that I shall accept...
...Whisked back to Manhattan, Frenchman Laval was engulfed by French compatriots. Before he could sail on the S. S. Ile de France, the French Chamber of Commerce staged a banquet, roared "Vive Laval! Vive la France!" in thunderous approval of the Premier's parting words...