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...Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...defeated, 286 to 281. Twenty-two crestfallen ministers and undersecretaries of state left the chamber to gather round the bedstead of laryngetic André Tardieu, who vainly begged his doctor's permission to dress, deliver his resignation to President Doumergue in person. Reporters waylaid bleary-eyed Aristide Briand, asked if he would attempt to form another government. He shook his head...
...Nine of his cabinet ministers were hold overs from the admittedly fragile "vacation government" of Aristide Briand...
...Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...
...wish to see Mr. Wakatsky," said Tardieu forewarned by Briand...