Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Prime Minister Andre Tardieu: "As chief of the Government I certainly have no right to comment on a decision taken by appropriate jurisdiction. What I think remains with...
Professor Albert Einstein (relativity): "I approve unqualifiedly the action of Richard Corbett, and I am happy in his acquittal by the French court, where a healthy feeling for the spirit of justice triumphed over the dead letter...
...purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...
...squarely what one wants! If you believe that France is badly engaged, then disengage her. The Young Plan is bad? It violates the rights of France? Then tear it up, tear up The Hague Convention! . . . The International Bank [see p. 30] is bad? Suppress that too! . . . Keep French troops on the Rhine . . . Repulse the Government . . . and repulse...
Grandeur into Facts. With the Chamber molten, Prime Minister Tardieu leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...