Word: boncour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand the noise on the first floor!" cried temperamental new French Premier & Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour in the French Foreign Ministry last week, ordered his office moved upstairs into the Queen's Bedroom...
...slept, at one time or another, all of Europe's better queens, including England's Mary. As for noise, the first floor was not too noisy for the late, great Aristide Briand, eleven times Premier of France. Foreign Minister almost continuously for seven years. But M. Paul-Boncour is M. Paul-Boncour, a fashionable lawyer with a knack of creating well-bred sensations. He turned French decorators loose in the Queen's Bedroom, gave them carte blanche to make it a quiet, tasteful office. Also last week he completed long-distance negotiations with the German Government which...
Since France had to have a Cabinet, payment or no payment, President Lebrun finally summoned the sleek, white-maned lawyer who has been M. Herriot's War Minister, famed Senator Joseph Paul-Boncour...
...Italian guest, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, and French War Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour had brought to nothing Mr. Davis' hopes that, after his talk with Premier Mussolini in Rome and his numerous talks with Premier Herriot, France and Italy might adhere to the London Naval Treaty. They agreed to nothing of that sort. Also scrapped was the so-called "Davis Plan." Mr. Davis had proposed to disband the present Disarmament Conference "before Christmas" with a treaty consolidating gains thus far made, and to create a Permanent Disarmament Committee which should function down the ages. All that went glimmering. Mr. Davis...
...heavy, thankless job of squelching the minor nations-who required squelching because otherwise Japan would have withdrawn from the League-was left to two of Europe's highest priced lawyers, Maitre Joseph Paul-Boncour, the sonorous, theatrical War Minister of France and Sir John Simon, icy, meticulous British Foreign Secretary. Neither of these special pleaders so much as mentioned the issues-whether Japan acted in self defense ; whether she broke treaties; whether League states should recognize Manchukuo. Instead both pressed for delay and Sir John Simon devoted most of his speech to stressing "the need of being practical...