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...report to Parliament on the Hoover conversations. Taking his time and keeping most of his secrets, the Prime Minister told the House in substance only what he had already told U. S. and Canadian reporters, namely that: 1) The forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from...
Wrathfully he informed M. Clémentel that the Radical Socialists would not support him, although they are his closest political kin. "What a thrust!" wrote one French correspondent. "A mortal thrust through the vitals of Clémentel. A spiteful thrust at Briand...
...third of a million French coal miners. Diving into the fray he managed in one week to win both operators and employes to his plan of settlement?which involved financial sacrifices by both. When the present cabinet crisis occurred with the fall of the government of Aristide Briand, the tenacious Dauphin was clinging to his Ministery of Interior (bestowed by Poincaré a year ago), a key post since the incumbent controls the local government and the police of France...
...Goodwill." Summoned by President Doumergue to form a cabinet last week, Fighter Tardieu accepted the mandate with characteristic brusqueness. He would not consult party leaders and try to win their support, he said. Others had done that and failed. Instead he would ask "republicans of good will," like Briand, to enter his cabinet on their personal responsibility, without impliedly pledging the support of their parties. With this cabinet he would face the Chamber of Deputies and they might unseat or sustain him as they chose. In effect, M. Tardieu slapped down before all France the following cabinet list, virtually defied...
Foreign Affairs?Aristide Briand...