Word: boncour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Premier's plan (drafted for the most part by French War Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour) is that France should propose to the great powers Six Conditions. In return for their acceptance France would reduce her conscript "Home Army" from 200,000 to 150,000 men by cutting the term of compulsory military training which young Frenchmen serve from one year to nine months. The Six Conditions, which M. Herriot said he would demand at Geneva...
Next that great French lawyer, Maitre Joseph Paul-Boncour, Minister of War, had his say. "The Hoover plan is eminently clear, direct and simple," he purred. "It is perhaps too simple, Messieurs. . . . My Government still maintains its policy of first obtaining guarantees that the security of France will not be threatened" [i. e. the old French slogan: "Security before Disarmament...
War?Joseph Paul-Boncour...