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...Republic. If this view is correct, then the present crisis is more than just a passing storm and may well mark the beginning of the end of representative government in France; if it is to be saved, what France needs is a man of the character of Clemenceau or Waldeck-Rousseau; but no such giant is apparent anywhere on the political horizon. Consequently, it will be necessary to appoint some lesser man to fill the place vacated by Chautemps. Whether or not he will be able to preserve the present government it is impossible to predict, for French domestic politics...
Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded...
Died. Rear Admiral Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, 64, who for two months during the World War defended the German colony of Kaio-chow against the Japanese ("I shall never surrender while I live unless ordered to"); in Bad Kissingen, Germany...
...venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked upon, and how much she. . . . Princess Emma. Sixty-two was the age of dissolute King Willem III of the Netherlands, justly famed as "The Dutch Don Juan," when in 1879 he married Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who was then...
...Majesty had been paying court to Emma's sister, Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont who, despite the honor, absolutely refused to marry him because of his age and reputation. A well substantiated account tells that 21-year-old Princess Emma burst in upon the pair at the critical moment after His Majesty had been refused...