Word: barthou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that, including "Gastounet," who served as Premier once before in 1913-14, six onetime Premiers were in it: Edouard Herriot, now Minister of State without portfolio; André Tardieu, also a Minister of State; Pierre Laval, now Minister of Colonies; Albert Sarraut, now Minister of the Interior; Louis Barthou, now Minister of Foreign Affairs. Republican idealists were more concerned over the fact that for the first time since the founding of the Third Republic the Cabinet contained two generals. Marshal Pétain, defender of Verdun, was the new Minister of War. General Victor Denain, onetime military aide...
Once again France was to have a government of the Left. The previous cabinet, that of youngster Andre Tardieu who fell two weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 15), was of the Right. Two other statesmen, Louis Barthou (Right) and Pierre Laval (Independent), tried and failed to form cabinets. It was definitely the turn of Left Oldster Theodore Steeg...
Last week under Prime Minister Steeg five former Prime Ministers consented to serve as ministers: Aristide Briand (Foreign Affairs); Georges Leygues (Interior) ; Louis Barthou (War); Paul Painleve (Air); Camille Chautemps (Education). That the great M. Painleve, thrice Prime Minister and often War Minister, should have consented to take the Ministry of Air seemed most significant, for previously the air portfolio has been a trifle infra dig, the prize of lesser statesmen like M. Laurent Eynac...
...rest of last week was spent by M. Le Senateur Louis Barthou, 68, one-time Prime Minister (1913), author of The Prodigious Lover, a biography of Richard Wagner, in discovering that he could not form a cabinet...
Died. Mme. Louis Jean Barthou, wife of onetime (1913) Prime Minister Barthou of France; at Paris; after a long illness. Because of his wife's failing health. M. Barthou did not accept a portfolio in the recently formed Tardieu Government (TIME...