Word: dieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since in France the men of the Left are, with a few notable exceptions, relatively less experienced in Government and famed than the Poincares and Tardieus of the Centre, some contemptuous critics of the new Government called it "scarcely a Cabinet." Certain it was that ousted Tar dieu and colleagues would launch and continue one of the hottest fights in French parliamentary history in an effort to oust Briand's yesmanly Chautemps...
...country. Furthermore, Tardieu endangers the peace of France both at home and abroad. A certain French politician has said of him that he resembles a pig in his enjoyment of filth and dirt, and his very name lends itself to a play on words: 'Tardieu,' or 'dieu des tares,' meaning 'god of imperfections.' One of the deputies in the Chamber said to him publicly, 'There are certain individuals whose dishonesty is universally recognized but who remain unpunished. You. Mr. Tardieu, are the last man in the world who has any right to accuse...
...cars?" demanded Louis Renault, Dean of French motor makers, last week. "If foreign cars should come to dominate the French market, what a calamity! . . . To have lost a million and a half men in the war to escape German tutelage, only to fall under the tutelage of America! Mon Dieu that would be more than Frenchmen could bear! Tell these things to your readers-urge them to support the wise, the necessary law of M. Flandin." French reporters bowed and withdrew...