Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain. Came Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to Paris en route to Geneva to attend a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. He had come, he said, to obtain information and not to enter into agreements. From what was known of his conversations with Premier Edouard Herriot, he admitted that British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco...
Inside the Quai d'Orsay, in a gilded council chamber, a group of men awaited the coming of Marshal Foch and Premier Edouard Herriot. They were the Ambassadors and Ministers of the late Allied Powers and had come for a meeting of the Council of Ambassadors*, which was to consider a report from the Inter-Allied Military Commission † of which Marshal Foch is Chairman...
According to the French Nationalists, Premier Edouard Herriot arose one morning last week, abluted, consumed his coffee and petits-pains, descended to his office in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) and there read certain handwriting on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN...
Then, like a touch of pathos, light appeared on the horizon; Premier Edouard Herriot and Prince Charoon, Siamese Minister to France, signed a treaty of amity, commerce, navigation and jurisdiction between their respective countries...
Noel Marie Joseph Edouard, Marquis de Curieres de Castelnau, was born on Christmas Eve, 1851, the year of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. He was taught to be a good Catholic by the Jesuits and in the 18th year of his life entered the military academy...