Word: brer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff barriers, aid in disposing of the products of both countries. MM. Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid a wreath on the tomb of Brer Briand's old friend and fellow peace worker, Gustav Stresemann. Talk of M. Laval's impending visit to the U. S. (see p. 11), and of the possibility that Herr Brüning would go too. almost obscured the whole Franco-German gesture...
...going to Berlin, he was gambling with one of the most meteoric careers in French politics. It is a tradition that any French Premier who leaves the country for more than three days will find himself out of office by the time he gets back. The much travelled Brer Briand, eleven times Premier of France, proved it over & over again. André Tardieu's trip to London in 1930 cost him his job. Even though the Chamber of Deputies will not meet until November, Premier Laval was taking chances...
There were cheers. Word had just been published that Brer Briand and Premier Laval had finally made up their minds to visit Berlin on Sept. 27 and 28, first visit of leading French statesmen to the German capital since Napoleon entered the city 125 years ago as commander of the French army...
Finally, at the middle of the week, a trickle of news leaked out. The Foreign Ministry admitted that there had been negotiations with Russia. Because of the illness of Brer Briand they had not been signed. They had just been "initialed...
Exiled from Paris by his doctors to avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...