Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order of the Garter. Few Englishmen and no Frenchman or Italian believed him when he told the French and Italian Ambassadors in London that he could not find time to confer with Premier Flandin and II Duce before going to Berlin "because of engagements...
Paris, Saturday, March 16--The Chamber of Deputies, whipped into line by threats of a swiftly rising man-power in Germany, early today gave Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin a smashing victory, approving his proposal to lengthen the term of compulsory military service to two years, from one as at present...
With the franc high & dry on the gold standard, French costs have risen so high that French goods in quantity cannot now compete in the world market. Premier Flandin's solution is to say that France is a quality-producer (TIME, Feb. 4). France's solution is to produce less. Last week there were nearly half a million Frenchmen on relief (alltime high), many times that number living out of the sacred family stocking. Also last week the leader of the Peasant Front, Henry Dorgeres, was telling the farmers of Normandy and Brittany...
Meanwhile Premier Flandin last week offered the unemployed of France a relief dodge based on the U. S. New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. If the Chamber of Deputies supplies the funds, Flandin's CCC camps will be set up in 13 of France's 90 departments to put French unemployed to work at reforestation and roadbuilding, the men to get food, lodging, clothes and a wine ration, their families to get their wage...
...vital symbol last week of the Great Powers' will to prevent Austria from being absorbed into Nazidom. This will was formally recorded at Rome in the pact of Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval (TIME, Jan. 14), then re-recorded at London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France), had really nothing to do except to pin upon sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross...