Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying the U. S. War Debt...
Meanwhile gallant Premier-reject Edouard Herriot, who went down fighting for payment to the U. S. when the Chamber overthrew his Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 26), received last week the most flabbergasting surprise of his life. As M. Herriot said not long ago: "Half the skill of being Premier of France lies in knowing how to fall!" but last week he learned that he need not have fallen, need never have raised the debt issue in the Chamber, need not have worried about it all those months...
...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...
...Guillotined at Dawn." Connoisseurs of oratory agreed that not since the death of 'cello-voiced Aristide Briand has Europe heard a speech so eloquent and witty, so persuasive and pathetic as Edouard Herriot loosed upon the French Chamber between 2:30 a. m. and the hour when he jestingly said, "My Government was guillotined at dawn...
...four days after his fall, Edouard Herriot blocked formation of a new Cabinet by stanchly insisting that France must pay. Urged by President Lebrun to resume the Premiership, M. Herriot declined the (for him) plainly impossible task of persuading the Chamber to reverse its vote. He thought that some other man might succeed. The President picked Former Premier Camille Chautemps, Minister of Interior in the fallen Herriot Cabinet...