Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously with a feeling in the pit of his stomach, Foreign Minister Flandin sought to appease the Wilhelmstrasse by offering to submit the Franco-Soviet Pact to The Hague Court to discover whether it violates the Locarno Pact. In the Chamber he urged ratification halfheartedly, almost apologetically. Bleating that the object of the Pact is "not to encircle Germany," he added with a French twist, "It is only the spirit of aggression which is to be encircled by this pact! It has been signed in the absence of Germany with regret for her absence and in the hope...
...Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...
Otto came rushing to be in Paris while the Vice Chancellor of Austria, pudgy, loose-lipped Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, who is strongly suspected of wishing to have himself proclaimed Regent, conferred last week with new French Foreign Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin. In outward profession Starhemberg is an adherent of Otto, but there was every indication that the Prince was highly delighted to hear from M. Flandin last week that France still opposes any Hapsburg restoration. While Otto gloomed, Starhemberg expansively led the retinue of French detectives by whom he was surrounded on evenings of wine, women & warbling...
Thus the atmosphere was tense and dramatic last week when the General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents...
...gold at the Bank of France only if prepared to purchase it in bars worth about $14,200 each. Before the Chamber of Deputies last week went the new Cabinet of millionaire Radical Socialist Premier Albert Sarraut. His Foreign Minister is that same moose-tall, fair-haired Pierre Etienne Flandin who as Premier appointed Jean Samson Tannery to be Governor of the Bank of France. Communists and Socialists, elated at the formation of a Left Centre Cabinet in succession to the Centre Cabinet of millionaire ex-Premier Pierre Laval, voiced their satisfaction through millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Said...