Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swarthy M. Laval with his white string tie* had seemed the logical choice when his tall chief, Pierre Etienne Flandin, was overthrown after asking the restive Chamber for "full powers" in a speech decidedly too long and probably too emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate...
Ministers of State: Former Premiers Flandin of the moderate Right and Herriot of the moderate Left; M. Louis Marin of the Right...
After a full hour of this, Premier Flandin stepped from the rostrum, walked slowly from the Chamber, slumped in a faint in the corridor outside. He was hustled home, put to bed. Not for many hours did he learn that his entire speech had been in vain. Paunchy little Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, had leaped in to plead the government's case until long past midnight. It did not change a vote. The Flandin Cabinet was voted...
...Hard-boiled reporters felt that hulking Premier Flandin had made several tactical errors in his last appeal to the Deputies. His entire speech had been dramatic and emotional, from the pedestal to prop his broken arm to the hints of dire plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable...
...Bouisson. To succeed Premier Flandin, President Lebrun turned promptly to the man who had been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because...