The Cabinet of Premier Pierre Laval met last week and nominated a new Ambassador to Berlin. André François-Poncet. Pierre de Margerie, France's present 69-year-old Ambassador to Germany, is retiring, as punishment for not warning his Government of the imminence of Germany's economic crisis four months ago, for not foreseeing the probable results of Chancellor Bruning's historic visit to Ramsay MacDonald at Chequers.
André François-Poncet will be an ornament to Unter den Linden. His shirts, his hats, his trousers are always of the latest cry. He has been listed with the smart-chart author André de Fouquiéres, wasp-waisted Marquis Boni de Castellane and silk-stocked...
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