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*
Of France
Talleyrand Likened To Strange Snake
THE COOL DIPLOMAT
-It was Carlyle who said that the right side of the Pope, and must career of Talleyrand would be "an therefore have a respectable Court, enigma for future nges."
his wife. But that did not prevent An enigma indeed! A blahop him from having many other mis- whose profligacy was a byword tresses; the one who shared his last A new fire alarm has been in-throughout two continenta; an in-days was the daughter of one ho vented in Germany which prevents valid who lived to a great old age; had enjoyed in his hey-day. His falke alarms.
a scholar of fastidious culture who logitimate children were numer
No More False Alarms.
The new appliance is one which married an addle-pated woman- little ous. few will enjoy playing round with better than of the streets; a stater- There is abundent testimony in future, for before the caller can man who deserted with unparalleled ] that women could not restat Talley- signal the brigade, he must put his equanimity a succession of rulers rand; and one does not drag them hand up to the wrist through a pair who had taken him into their con-in here irrelevantly, but because of of handcuffs which automatically fidence; a member of the world's his dictum that "women are poli close when the lever is pulled, proudest aristocracy who took the tics." keeping the caller imprisoned until kicks of boors with a shrug and an Talleyrand was the chief agent in the arrival of the brigade.
Your Daily Smile.
* GRAND PASSION.
"Young love is best,” sighs
a
epigram; a shameless taker of the over-throw of the Directory and. enormous bribes and a stickler, even the coming of Napoleon and the Jon his death-bed, for the minute ab- Consulate. What part he played in
servance of etiquette: these are the murder of the Duke of Enghien," some of the convolutions in the which preceded-Napoleon's assump character of this strange snake of ation of the Imperial purple, no one woman writer. Ah, that school girl fellow-convolutions which most of has been able to discover, and Mr. [affection!
jus would despair of atraightening Duff Cooper records that ha did out. We would be content still to not protest against the crime; car- leave the task to "futuré ages." ..-- |ried out his instructions:in connec-
But Mr. Duff Cooper, in "Talley- tion with it, and subsequently de rand" (Cape, 12s. 6d.), has essayed fended it." tributes to good qualities in Talley- the prodigious task. Though Overthrew Napoleon,
Well, Oll be-Danged.
"Village life is quite gay nowa- days," I read. The modern rus- tic makes hay while the sun shines, and whoopec while the moon shines.
*
HA! HA! HO! HO!
As he had overthrown the Direc rand can be found in plenty, Mr. tory, so at last he assisted to over- Cooper is aware that history hes put throw Napolean, with whose whole the man in the dock. Taking up policy of Imperial expansion he pro-
war debts are the results of losses A doctor warns us never to sleep the task of counsel for the defence, foundly disagreed. Mr. Dutt Coo- whose colossal amounts the on a heavy meal. A bed is usually world of 1914 would never have more comfortable. dreamed possible. To prevent
The China Mail
Mr. Cooper has produced a credit per does not make a convincing job able piece of special pleading; and, of explaining why Talleyrand did in asking for an acquittal, he relies not resign his offices, He clung Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1932. payment of these debts in com- There's Always Something.
chiefly on this argument: that all the on to the last, and was one of the modities, creditor countries haveIt is said that darts, table ten-twists and turns in Talleyrand's first in with the returning Bour- imposed fantastic tariffs, and is, and skittles are the only character and career are not those bons. Perhaps he remembered the of a snake but those of a river day when Napoleon, in a room full Function Of Confidence, the example has been followed amusements Herr Hitler allows his
by many other countries. a pro- personal followers to have. But, which, however, much it may seem of courtiers, had vilified him for That prices
cedure which they considered to of course, they can always listen to change its course and double back half an hour, concluding with the should
again be necessitated by self-defence. to Herr Hitler
and swerve and divagate, is all the chaste remark that "he was nothing. topple in the United States Thence followed the flow of gold
time tending to a fore-ordained ob- but so much dung in a silk stock- raises the question whether the to the United Statch and to
jective. And that objective, in the ing." Talleyrand permitted him- traders of that country are the France, with consequent falls in
case of Talleyrand, was the good of self merely to comment: "What astute business men they assert prices and the restrictions on
France and the peace of Europe & pity that such a great man should themselves to be. The President the interchange of goods brought
Days of Revolution. ..be soillbred! But perhaps ho of the Republic, in the course of still lower the prices which pro-increased, about 25 per cent. in is difficult, to begin with, to enter awaited the coming of Louis at The city of Prague, which has But can we acquit Talleyrand? It recalled the incident when he a political speech, announces ducers received in the markets population in the last few years, without that the party he leads steered of the world. Lack of confidence has tentatively adopted a $60,000,- into the atmosphere in which he
a sense of hallucination Complegne. clear from the has had its results in falling 1000 municipal improvement pro-moved: that atmosphere in which, till death took him off the scene. monetary rocks seven montha commodity prices at a time when ago. In the meantime monetari-it is generally, acknowledged gramme.
the country
Facts You Did Not
Know A
Loufs managed to keep the throne
after the Revolution had broken up Ho was succeeded by Charles X., ly the country, has consclidated that one of the necessities of the According to tests by a psycho- lovers and mistresses moved hither group which hailed Louis-Philippe the nobility of France, cohorts of and Talleyrand was well in with the its position. In place of losing situation in every country is a logist children preferred objects, and thither about Europe and when Charles X. was deposed. gold at the rate of millions of raising of the general price leve to those of any other colour from America, a sort of chain of free. During a night fracas which preced dollars a week it has gained gold The investor should be encourag- infancy to school age, when a pre-love at that rate. Yet there is a rushed to launch out. While.debtors ference for blue, objects develops. poverty-stricken talking, writing dow and exclaimed: "Hark! We circuses, scintillating ored that event he went to the win- to convert securities and com- should be dealt with sympathe modities into eash, almost as if tically, and with leniency with The number of automobiles in verve and; brilliance, and finally he was asked; and he answered: and intriguing with incomparable are winning! We who are we?" the business men and the securi-regard to debts justifiably con- Chile has increased 280 per cont, drifting back upon Paris when the "Hush! Not a word! I will tell ty holders feared there would tracted when prices were on a in six years, the country tanking Terror had Flown itself out and the you to-morrow. not be sufficient to go round. higher level, nothing should be third in South America in number star of Napoleon was in the On that half-focular but pro They are acute rather than done which would cause the in- of cars in proportion to popula-ascendant. astute, The New York telegrams vestor to fear that the security tion. seek to throw some responsibili- of capital he may now embark ty on the holders of foreign directly or indirectly in produc balances. They are said to be tion would be impaired. repatriating their money. In any
}be small, and it is significant
that the fall in commodities and
foundly symptomatic remark might Talleyrand, who stood by the Re-be founded the case in opposition volution but not by the Torror, was to Mr. Duff Cooper's. Through all When a coin is placed in a slot the most notable member of that the stir and tumult of that time in a new vending machine peanuts volatile crew. You must pictura Talleyrand seemed to live with his case, those foreign balances must Cosmic-Ray Romancing a compartment in which they are turned-up nose and small green eyes, rumour of to-morrow's victor. And are dropped from a receptacle into him as a man with a limp, with a ear to the ground to catch the first thoroughly heated before delivery, a dandy, a gourmet whose chef then, sroiling and serene, there he securities is simultaneously re- Your. physicist is supposed to
achieved a European reputation was on the spot. ported. What holders of foreign be hard, matter-of-fact lativistic universe, from which Kleimannsegge saw him: "When he not unnaturally anxious about his This is how the Countess He died surrounded by people balances there are have voted measurer who suppresses ro- they cannot escape because it is approached me with his limping soul. Papers had been drawn up, want of confidence, it would ap mantic speculation and talks closed and finite. Stimulated by gait, his heavy body, his flashing and the Archbishop had sent four pear following a similar vote by only of energy, volts, ions and him, others imagine that, just as eyes, his snake-like month and jaw, witnesses to see that all was in or Americans themselves. The electrons. Confront him with a the bones of a dinosaur tell us his paralysing amile and his affected der. Even a child dressed for first conclusion to be drawn from mystery and he proves to be as something of the life that was tatteries, I thought: "Nature gave communion was brought in to im these happenings is that con human as the rest of us Con- on earth a few million years ago, you, the choice between enake and press Talleyrand's He-sign- fidence has not yet been restored elder the cosmic rays. For so these fossil cosmic rays reveal tiger, and you chose to be aned at last; but one cannot read Mr. in the United States, and until years, Millikan England and the Almighty in the act of fash-anaconda,
Duff Cooper's account of those last confidence is restored there can Kolhoerster, Hest, Regener and ioning electrons and protons into His Cynicism,
hours without feeling that it must be no marked revival of trade, others in Europe have been nebulae, suns, planetary sys Strange stories were abroad con- have been the most stage-managed which would lead to an increase studying them only to their own tems and man himself. For all cerning hins. In 1790 when the entry into the Kingdom of God over of secondary production, and so mystification and ours. Measur- the instruments and methods Federation took place in Paris, he known in history. of employment. Some glimmering instruments are dropped into invented to test the cosmic rays, was chosen, as Bishop of Autun, to ings of returning trade were lakes a thousand feet deep or the physicist is still the medi- celebrate mass at a great open-air thought to be apparent in the elevated twenty miles above sea-cine-man from whom he is de service, the King and Queen and an United Sites two months ag level Piccard imperila his life scended.... Electroscopes and the officers of the State being pre- following upon sporadic reports to determine the true nature of ionization chambers and other sent. During the service: Talleyrand of business increasing their out the rays. Professor Compton coamic-ray measuring inatrit whispered to Lafayette "Don't
Seiyukai Warned By put and their pay-rolls The in and a devoted band of physicists ments seem strangely like wanda make me laugh, and when it was
Press. creases were attributed to the station themselves at the Equa- and totem poles, and Einsteinian all over he went to a gambling business" taking advantage of tor, in the far north," on toun-equations but incantations that saloon and broke the bank. Not the reflation schemes authorised taintops, in deep mines to con- make us believe we know more long afterwards the Pope excom-Increasing criticism and appre
Tokyo, Yesterday by Congress, but the eventa of duct their investiga
And than we really do. That we municated him. He never wanted hension being voiced regarding dealing with some-to be a priest. His family pushed the financial situation and the wish fulfillments in him into the church,
Cabinet's persistence in the pre ya is evidenced by Talleyrand returned from exile to sent budget policy of unlimited
ined Here is the world of the Directory borrowing and Olling a huge de vincing himself that world ruled by charlatans and feit by an issue of bonds.
CRISIS IN JAPAN'S POLITICS.
the past week have proved that, the result Romance sheer are actually with all the reflation possible, romance. Millikan spins a tale thing like little towards restoration can be of electrons and protons 1. com- the coen accomplished until the combining in space, and of resultant the resul munity can be imbued with con- cosmic rays that proclaim, the Militar fidence that the bottom has been continuous upbuilding of the uni- the cosmic rays prove that the dominated by demireps." He be The Selyukai appear to be divid reached. It would almost appear verse itrary to all the laws of universe
as if ub-consciously Americans the
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are only money that laid the foundation of a criticise the failure to
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