Word: ministere
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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 me."
A shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could...
*Each Dominion has a Prime Minister not subordinate but equal in rank to James Ramsay MacDonald, who is only "His Majesty's Prime Minister in Great Britain."
Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign...
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...