Word: flandin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week elegantly-tailored Premier Flandin crosses the English Channel with his messy-looking, franc-pinching Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, who wears white wash ties even in the dead of winter. Once again it seemed probable that weary old Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would be cheered and heartened by the dynamic young Frenchman. The last time Flandin and MacDonald made a night of it in London (TIME, April 18, 1932) the Scot said afterward, "Conversation was free and easy-a sort of smoker which was in no sense a Quaker meeting!" That was apropos of the Danube Conference, which...
This sort of spacious international question is the sort James Ramsay MacDonald loves to twiddle with and talk about. That the British Prime Minister can actually be brought to do anything, the French Premier more than doubted. In Paris last week M. Flandin's press officer had orders to say that the visit might well turn out to be one of "courtesy and contact," with none of the quick action on great issues that Premier Benito Mussolini gave Foreign Minister Laval last month. Since Italy is minute, Britain monstrous, the London talks may still be of greater importance than...
Easy Money. To quicken French enterprise Premier Flandin has insisted that money rates must be eased, and to get them down he had to fire the National Tightwad, respected M. Clément Moret, since 1930 Governor of the Bank of France (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week new Governor Jean Tannery was ready to play loose-wad. The play, long since approved by the Cabinet and hashed over in the Press, consisted in presenting the Chamber of Deputies last week with a bill at which extreme conservatives screamed "Inflation...
Imperturbable big Flandin caused the bill to open with this significant preamble...
...Paris the incident was handled with finesse. There was no outburst by Premier Flandin against Emperor Power of Trinity. All the gory details were released, for their valuable effect in preparing the French mind for gory Italian work later in Abyssinia. Then French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin. who last month gave back to Tahitian girls their reputedly indecent pareus, announced that the massacring tribesmen were "nomads who have never been pacified," called Gobad an "occurrence incidental to colonial rule." To butchered young Administrator Bernard went, posthumously, by Premier Flandin's order, the tiny rosette of the Legion...