Word: flandin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the new "Business Government' of tall, kinetic, 45-year-old Pierre Etienne Flandin, youngest Premier in French history...
Thus pressure on the franc last week was "psychological, not actual," in the opinion of foreign exchange experts. They pointed to the success of new Premier Flandin in winning huge votes of confidence from Chamber and Senate on a program of rock-ribbed gold standardism (seep. 21). The gold cover behind French currency stood at over 80%. Even so, psychological pressure was great. After-effects of the French crisis fortnight ago kept the currencies of four gold bloc countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) fractionally below the gold export point all week. President Roosevelt, by relaxing completely the lax treasury restrictions...
Work done last week as the new Cabinet of tall, mighty-muscled, 220-lb. Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin got down to business...
...largest majority any French Cabinet has received in years, Premier Flandin was upheld in the Chamber 423-to-118, received a vote of approval by the Senate so overwhelming that it was not even counted. France, as M. Flandin remarked, thus began "the last experiment in parliamentary democracy." If it fails, he warned, the alternative is Dictatorship...
...with drastic plans to revamp the entire fighting service in his charge. By decree of President Lebrun, ex-War Minister Marshal Pétain was reinstated, this time permanently, as a member of the Supreme Council of National Defense. "We shall develop our alliances and our friendships," proclaimed Premier Flandin. "We shall strengthen our national defense...