Word: cambon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Known variously to Parisians as "Aunt Geneviéve," "the Pythoness," sometimes "the wastepaper basket of Europe," Tabouis in private life is the wife of an obscure radio executive, mother of two grown children. In the house of her uncle Jules Cambon, onetime French Ambassador to Berlin, she acquired a taste for the vague generalities of political conversation. After the war she took to visiting sessions of the League of Nations, writing chatty letters to her uncle from Geneva...
Significance. From a wholly detached point of view there was "no immediate cause for alarm." As the dean of French diplomats, Jules Cambon, has said: "The Germans do not want war; all they want is the rewards of victory...
Died. Jules Martin Cambon, 90, "dean of French diplomats," onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. (1897-1901), Spain (1901-07), Germany (1907-14), able brother of able Pierre Paul Cambon who as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's laid the foundations of the Anglo-French entente; in Vevey, Switzerland...
...diplomacy, is doubtless experiencing a revival of faith as a result of the Anglo-French conversations now being held in London. For there is little difference between the methods being employed to bring France and England closer together, and the frequent visits paid by M. Jules Cambon to the British Foreign Office in the years immediately preceding the World War. To be sure, present-day publicity precludes the possibility of the once popular secret alliances, but this factor is merely a sign of the times. Even President Wilson could not claim that the statement issued by the representatives...
Other distinguished French persons who have been associated with the Cercle in the past are Jules Cambon, Andre Tardieu, and Sarah Bernhardt...