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Bustle, dash and wide-awake words became suddenly the fashion in drowsy French officialdom when Andre Tardieu, "The Most American of Frenchmen," stepped up to power (TIME, Nov. 11). News last week was of night conferences, Sunday conferences, even mealtime conferences (a sacrilege in France). The new Prime Minister in his hard, square-cut, double-breasted business suit was putting through their paces the diplomats of Paris, by tradition silkily double-tailed, white-spatted.
In rapid-fire succession M. Tardieu received Germany's unctuous Dr. Leopold vori Hoesch, Russia's slow,...
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