Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*"Les Baches Payeront!" was the slogan with which Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (1917-20) justified every expense or extravagance in carrying on the War; and ever since Frenchmen have been putting off their own debt settlements with: ''The Bodies will pay!"
Since France is no longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is?in political jargon?the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most...
Point and significance was lent to Parliamentary gossip about Le Dauphin, last week, by the fact that M. Poincaré again let it be known, during the holidays, that he plans to resign as soon as he is satisfied that his Cabinet?in which he now holds no active portfolio?can...
Like many another king, Alexander of Jugoslavia was sick last week with influenza when Monsignor Anton Koroshetz, the Prime Minister, called to say that he no longer had a majority in Parliament and must resign. His Majesty replied between coughs and snuffles that Monsignor Koroshetz would have to wait a...
Retiring respectfully the priest Prime Minister waited, doubtless prayed and presently, as the Royal flu abated, handed in the Cabinet's resignation.