Word: laval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week his hat came sailing back into the ring. Tardieu began a comeback with the peculiar maneuver of resigning from the Republican Centre Party and attacking its President Paul Reynaud for having attacked fortnight ago Premier Pierre Laval and the Hoare-Laval Deal to dismember Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 6). The effect of this slash from a claw of "Tiger" Clemenceau's cub was that within 24 hours M. Reynaud was obliged to resign his Party's Presidency and demands were heard that M. Tardieu be elected his successor...
...Doom of Laval' Because of the difference between Britons and Frenchmen, the Laval Cabinet was not able to defend itself by the methods which the Baldwin Cabinet successfully employed. Both Cabinets had been pledged, as a whole and up to the hilt, to secure immediate peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that...
...Premier Laval, being his own Foreign Minister, could not make himself his own scapegoat. He is the engineer of no political steam roller but an Independent. During 1935 the French Chamber, in which there is no solid majority, has been on the point of overthrowing him for one reason or another nearly every week, not because he is unpopular but in the ordinary workings of French politics in which Premier after Premier is ground exceedingly small. Last week there were beyond question in the Chamber more than enough Leaguo-philes, Devaluationists, Socialists, Communists and people-who-simply-do-not- like...
...Dead") Deal. It was with the earthy calm of his matter-of-fact peasant origin that millionaire Lawyer Pierre Laval opened his remarks upon The Deal...
...execution of Paragraph 3 of Article XVI of the League Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more...