Word: jouvenel
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...Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
French Senator Henry de Jouvenel, recently turned "traitor" to the League of Nations, as many internationalists profess, declared that the Spirit of Locarno was not enough to secure the peace of Europe. In voicing such expression he was speaking for the French Nationalists (the Poincareists) whose suspicion of Germany is deeprooted...
Editor de Jouvenel, having thus figuratively cried "Hypocrite!" at M. Briand, concluded...
Briand's Rebuttal. Since M. Briand's enemies have been hurling much harder names than "Hypocrite!" at him for 30 years, the criticism of his colleague, M. de Jouvenel, drew from suave Aristide Briand a honeyed rebuttal in which no fly of irritation lurked...
...dear friend, less attached than you are to the League," he wrote to M. de Jouvenel. "It is because of my very attachment to the League that I seek the measure of effort which can be demanded of it if one wishes to serve it with prudence in its own interest and that of peace...