Word: boncour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, white-haired veteran of many a League session, did not let the occasion slip by without reminding the world that there were other aggressions and other aggressors. M. Paul-Boncour said that France and Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded...
Most of the contributors to Monde Libre's first issue were front-page names: France's Herriot, Daladier, Paul-Boncour, Petain; England's Lord Cecil and Winston Churchill; China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; U. S.'s rugged internationalist, Nicholas Murray Butler. Included among the articles on the economic and cultural advantages of peace and democracy were pertinent observations about the efficiency of the U. S. air force, Britain's navy, France's army. Monde Libre will appear quarterly in French and English...
...same military maps went with Mr. Lloyd George a few days later to his conferences with Premier Léon Blum and Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour. This week the E. Phillips Oppenheim nature of these activities was raised to the nth degree when Lloyd George, who had sped from Paris to London, sped back...
...efforts to divert the public mind, Joseph Paul-Boncour. the new Foreign Minister and great League of Nations apostle, announced that German agents are busy in Alsace-Lorraine fomenting "Hitlerian intrigues" and that orders have been given for their arrest...
With the greatest possible reserve, seeing that the Soviet Union is linked in friendship with the French Republic by treaty, last week's Moscow proposals for an anti-Fascist conference were "accepted in principle" by Paul-Boncour. To French journalists he made it unmistakable that Paris will not act in the matter without London, which had already reacted negatively. When Premier Juan Negrin of desperate Leftist Spain went flying to Paris and begged Messrs. Blum & Paul-Boncour for aid last week he was cold-shouldered...