Word: americains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Servants in the small Hotel Lincoln, in Paris,* were mildly surprised one evening last week to see the short, white-mustached old Americain who had been stopping at the hotel with his sick wife for several weeks, making his way furtively out of the house through the dim-lit service entrance. With him was his alert, dark-haired son, who had just arrived from the U. S. The son carried a small handbag. In the street they hailed a taxi, vanished into the night...
Talkative, easygoing, amiable Premier Herriot thus was seen to have expanded the Cabinet to 18 portfolios, whereas his curt, nervous, kinetic predecessor Andre Tardieu compressed the previous Cabinet to 13 (TIME, March 7). Probably most Frenchmen are vaguely pleased by the change. They nicknamed M. Tardieu somewhat contemptuously L'Americain, mistrusted his go-getting methods, his efficiency scheme of rolling the Ministries of War. Navy and Air into one Ministry of Defense...
...nation of Centrists, a moderate land of thrifty folk, this shift was sufficiently dramati¶ Everyone agreed that it blasted and destroyed the power of the Right Centre coalition in the Chamber of Deputies whose leader is Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Looking for the next Premier of France, the nation shifted its attention from Paris-on-the-Seine 250 miles due south to Lyon-on-the-Rhone. Lyon presented a terrific sight...
...Geneva Conference where he arrived as Premier, Foreign Minister and Chief French Delegate, darted zip back to Paris and again zip to Switzerland. No U. S. traveling salesman travels harder. Frenchmen (most of whom are only as busy as bees) call their hornet-premier "Tardieu I'Americain." Pals are Andre Tardieu and Pierre Laval. They may sooner or later cease to be pals, for French politics has a way of rupturing personal friendships.* But up to last week Senator Laval and Deputy Tardieu had kept the Premiership of France bouncing back and forth between them...
...Saoul Comme un Americain...