Briand, Parliament & Fistfights
When a Frenchman is sick he keeps close indoors, with all his windows tight shut night & day. This shaggy old Foreign Minister Aristide Briand has done for more than a month. His bachelor bedroom is in the Foreign Office. He could slip down for the hour or two of work a day permitted by his doctors without breathing a single sniff of possibly deadly fresh air. In this manner the greatest living Frenchman fought bronchitis and won, emerged in palpably good health...
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