Word: brer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...franc, and incidentally to blight the careers of several Briand satellites. Ousted Pierre Laval contrived to get himself elected a Senator from the Department of the Seine (which he has since represented). He dropped back for several years into obscurity as a quiet Independent. Still close to Old Brer Briand, he also made himself close to Young André Tardieu...
Less than a year ago even Frenchmen were asking, "Who is this Laval?" Last week the Premier pushed completely out of the Chamber picture Old Brer Briand, his veteran Foreign Minister whose support was necessary to prop up the young Laval Cabinet last spring. In effect, M.Laval reversed (perhaps rashly) the soft-spoken policy toward Germany of his own Foreign Office. When M. Briand last addressed the Chamber applause rose from the Left and Left Centre. When M. Laval spoke last week, the Centre and Right vociferously cheered his words: "We will accept no new Reparations arrangement except...
Formally Acting President Aristide Briand opened the Clock Room Council with a pledge that the League "will continue to seek a solution which will be equitable without tendential references"-upon uttering which words Old Brer Briand was seized with a violent fit of coughing...
...Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...
Within a few hours Brer Briand, abetted by British Foreign Secretary the Marquess of Reading, had transformed the issue before the League into: Shall the U. S., which has always refused League membership, have a temporary Council seat? To U. S. observers this question proved roughly eight times as interesting as what happened to China or Japan. Despatches speculating on whether President Hoover (a onetime Democrat) was "trying to enter the League by the back door" were slapped under front page headlines three columns wide. Despatches datelined Tokyo, Nanking, Shanghai and Mukden were boiled down to second-page squibs. Even...