Word: briand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serving at present at New York University as the somewhat obscure director of a research seminar on a postwar European federation. But from 1919 to 1940 Coudenhove-Kalergi might have been found in any one of a dozen European capitals, now plucking the sleeve of the sympathetic Aristide Briand, now arguing his case for a federated Europe with noncommittal Englishmen, sometimes going so far as to lobby Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht or Benito Mussolini...
...tradition, had been dreamed again & again by Europeans themselves. A host of great Europeans, from Kant to Ortega y Gasset, had agreed that in unity lay the only European future that made sense. In 1929, the high noon of France's hegemony on the continent, the great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward a European federation. From 26 nations came approval - in principle. Though Britain was officially cool, Winston Churchill, then a political outcast, wrote: "Why should Europe fear unity? As well might a man fear his own body." Edouard Herriot, Briand...
Later Reporter Tabouis covered the making of the Locarno Pact, was as jubilant as Foreign Minister Briand for France's future. "Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!" Realistic old Uncle Jules Cambon brought Niece Tabouis down to earth. "Can't you see," he said, "that in spite of all those fools at Geneva who are congratulating themselves on Locarno, nothing has been basically altered? Geneva cannot change human nature overnight...
...five years later (it was 1929) Reporter Tabouis still received "a strong impression of warmth and enthusiasm" at the League's tenth session. The Young Plan had been substituted for the Dawes Plan. The unrealists sighed with relief. Said Briand: "There will be no more victors now, and no more defeated.' To symbolize the new international harmony there was an international radio concert. "The piano," said the woman announcer, "is in Paris, the first violin is in Vienna, the oboe is in London. . . . The conductor of the orchestra is in Berlin." "I hope," said Czech Prime Minister Benes...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...