Foreign News: Nine-Lived Caillaux

Dense white fog settled around the chill towers and spires of Chartres, billowed over hoary ramparts, poured down into the valley. Approaching, speeding up the valley road into the fog, came a silent, richly glinting limousine, the car of M. Joseph Caillaux, famed "Statesman with Nine Lives."

As he lounged on cushions of matched snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"—this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial...

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