Word: auvergnat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilized society, there must be only one army- that of the Nation! (tremendous applause). . . . Either our Government will change its methods or we will change the Government!" On the spot in which Pierre Laval now found himself only a great master of the ambiguous could save the day. The Auvergnat is precisely that. He was first elected to the Chamber as a rabid Socialist. In a witty vaudeville sketch now convulsing Paris the actor playing M. Laval says of those early days: "I was never a Socialist; only the people who voted for me were." Today the Auvergnat is considered...
Dexterous Auvergnat. This intrusion by Ethiopia with a plea for practical horse-trading went unnoticed by the world Press as editors ordered out their biggest headlines for the clash of British and Italian wills crystallized by Sir Samuel Hoare. He himself stepped to a Geneva microphone next night and surprisingly cried: "Let the air carry to Italy these words?that whatever bitter things may be said, they are the words of a real friend! . . . A settlement must be sought that will do justice alike to Ethiopia's national rights and Italy's claims for expansion...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin faces a general election before long, considered Sir Samuel's speech in the nature of an electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon that olive-skinned Auvergnat, dexterous Premier Pierre Laval, mounted the Assembly rostrum. Eight minutes later, when he stepped down, M. Laval drew his arm in most friendly fashion through that of Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompoe Aloisi and they strolled down the aisle together while editors were getting out such banner heads as: LAVAL...
...expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races for ten years, never the Tour de France. Half of France hopes he will come...
June: Premier Laval showed his tough Auvergnat mettle by holding up the Hoover One-Year Moratorium singlehanded, hurling his famed defy?"Presi-dent Hoover can entrench himself behind his Congress and I can entrench myself behind the Chamber"?and hanging on doggedly until the Moratorium was modified into a form acceptable to France...