Word: barthou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou were murdered at Marseille in 1934 by a professional assassin whose Italian connections were carefully hushed. Two years ago British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen was machine-gunned and dangerously wounded by a Japanese plane. During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen. If an incident were needed to start a war, the world has recently had plenty of them...
...fireboat squirted water as far as it could, striving to wet down as many roofs as possible, but it was soon evident that the city fire department was no better than the police. Four years ago the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander together with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille was "on the police." Last week, although a Marseille fire brigade chief gave his life recklessly fighting the flames, the holocaust was "on the fire department." The conflagration got completely out of hand...
...offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster returned from the Balkans only to be shot dead along with Yugoslav's King Alexander a few days later at Marseille (TIME...
...pact dates from the "Save-France Cabinet" formed after the Stavisky bloodshed by beloved onetime President Gaston ("Papa Gastounet") Doumergue. Suddenly recalled by duty from retirement to the dirty job of Premier, "Papa" Doumergue chose as his Foreign Minister, venerable Louis Barthou, who proceeded to surprise all Europe by showing even more energy than such young sprigs as Anthony Eden...
...Barthou's theory that to try to please everyone was nonsense and that the enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that...