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...Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought he was dead when they carried him off the field run completely through the body by his opponent's dueling rapier, but he had lost only his first life. He recovered to become Undersecretary of War in the first Cabinet of Aristide Briand who was to be eleven times Premier of France...
...transparency of the American announcement that it will have nothing to do with Europe's affairs is of course evident the moment one reads the Kellogg-Briand treaties outlawing war which were solemnly signed by the United States government and ratified by the United States senate...
...prevents such an agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend in this civilized world!" To reassure France further, he invoked the Locarno Treaty of 1925, negotiated by Britain's Sir Austen Chamberlain and France's late great Peace Man Aristide Briand to protect the Franco-Belgo-German frontier against aggression. "What Britain has signed she will adhere to!" cried Mr. Baldwin. "She adhered to her signature regarding Belgium. . . . Her signature and her agreements are sacred...
...streets, at his hotel and at the meetings of the 14th League Assembly (TIME, Oct. 2) whose sessions this week were more than usually routine and futile. When he rose to make his first address, attendants agreed that not since the oratorical pinwheels of the late Aristide Briand had a League audience given such an ovation. From the front row even handsome German Foreign Minister von Neurath started to clap until nudged into silence by beady-eyed Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels. Said Chancellor Dollfuss...
...born in a part of Imperial Russia which now happens to be Polish. Several years ago, when Russia and Poland were publicly at daggers points, he began making overtures to a Pole who had been born on soil now part of the Soviet Union, famed August Zaleski. "The Briand of the North," then Foreign Minister of Poland. Almost furtively the two statesmen laid the basis of a diplomatic rapprochement, perhaps not desired at that time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced by Foreign Minister Beck, a "Pilsudski Colonel," reputed a swashbuckler. Momentarily...