The Archive · 1928

An Unusual Liveliness

The attempt at an international women's rights demonstration ttt fide the Chatea at Rambouillet while the plenipotentiaries were Junching with the President of the ie was only half-hearted. The mes, who were rather taken aback at frst, soon ree vered them: elves, seized the banner and fags and conducted the suffragists to oom in the town hall, where th were detained until the plenipote Garies were safely out of the way No attempt was made to imitate the methods of the lite Mes, Pankhurst The prisoners did not even suevifice heir luncheon to the cause, When they felt" hungry they demanded sandwiches, and got them, Mild as St was, this demonstration has set the authorities thinking. If this Proves to be the beginning of a new ulfyagist agitation, conducted not merely on national but on into national Tines, the meetings of the Council of the League of Nations may develop an unusual liveliness, +The Late Marshal Fayolle Marshal Fayutle, who died a few Hours before the signature of the anti-war pact at the Quai dOrsay, was Tess known to the man in the n were the other great caders of the French forees during the world-war, although as a strateisthe was by no means inferior to Foch himself, Like Foch, he was at one-time a lecturer at the School of War, the kind of post given only to'fien of exceptional attainments, Dut he was merely a brigadier-general when the time came for him 0 retire under the age limit, two months before hostilities broke out.

As soon ashe returned to active vice at the head of a brigade, The salon at the Quai Ores: nung mountains, His final achieve. ment wits og commander of the cup of armies.in the centre during the attack that began in July, 1918.

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