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Last week all Paris was agog with rumors that Prime Minister André Tardieu was seriously pondering whether to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Excitement grew when the private airplane of Sir Henri Deterding, Anglo-Dutch oil tycoon, arrived from London at Le Bourget and Sir Henri sped by motor to confer for two hours with M. Tardieu, then dashed back to his plane, flew home to London. Observers pondered the most widely believed explanation of Sir Henri's movements: he came at the request of M. Tardieu who wanted to know whether French consumers...
Before assembled naval delegates, crisp businesslike Prime Minister André Tardieu demanded for France a total of 725.000 tons by 1937 in order to give her absolute parity with Italy in the Mediterranean, and to offset the 144,000 tons allowed Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. This program, if built, would give France not only the largest submarine fleet in the world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge...
Three months ago kinetic André Tardieu, also with a woefully weak government* became Prime Minister of France. The MacDonald strategy seemed to him excellent, he too concentrated on foreign affairs. Hectically he dashed back and forth to Geneva, to The Hague, to London but though he nearly wrecked the Naval Conference last week in his desire to show the world the might of France, results at home were less satisfactory. Last week ill with laryngitis, he returned to Paris in an attempt to cope with the rising opposition of radicals, socialists...
Ordered to bed by his doctors he was unable to lead the fight in person. Pudgy André Cheron, France's chin-whiskered Minister of Finance took orders from his chief by telephone, directed the government's defense. In the Chamber of Deputies, three times the Tardieu-Cheron forces beat off the opposition. The deputies prepared to vote on a measure to reduce the income tax for married women. On the rostrum Pudgy Minister Cheron raised his hand...
...Chamber voted. The Government was defeated, 286 to 281. Twenty-two crestfallen ministers and undersecretaries of state left the chamber to gather round the bedstead of laryngetic André Tardieu, who vainly begged his doctor's permission to dress, deliver his resignation to President Doumergue in person. Reporters waylaid bleary-eyed Aristide Briand, asked if he would attempt to form another government. He shook his head...