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...SNOWDEN, Briand and Stresemann were the "Big Three" at the first Hague Reparations Conference, with SNOWDEN towering in the news because of his unexpected, stubborn demand for a bigger slice of "reparations spongecake" (TIME...
...young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late great Dr. Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister of the German Republic; and M. André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu, famed as "L'Americain," successor to M. Aristide Briand as Prime Minister of the French Republic...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...
...France has always supported the thesis that limitation of armaments can only be effectively secured within the terms of Article VIII of the League Covenant," said B'rer Briand last week...
...tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...