Word: mm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion was then offered expressing the Senate's lack of confidence in the Government, was carried 156 to 134 votes, MM. Poincaré and Millerand voting against the Government. The Premier afterwards resigned...
...when he became 65 years of age in 1916, he was retired, as is usual with French Army officers of his rank and age; how, a year later, he was appointed to supreme command of the French Army in succession to General Nivelle-an appointment for which MM. Painleve and Clemenceau still claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare to make him a Marshal of France, the pinnacle...
Evacuation. The last exchange of letters between French, Belgians and Germans was of considerable import ance. In order to allow the Germans to meet their Opposition with concrete advantages obtained from the Conference, MM. Herriot, Theunis and Hymans wrote to Chancelor Marx: "At the moment approaching the close of the London Conference, which marks an important effort to establish a regime of international concord, the French and Belgian governments, desirous of giving immediate and spontaneous proof of their will to peace and their confidence in the engagements freely entered into, decide that they will order, on the day following...
Political Guarantee. "It was necessary to consider the possibility of Germany's failing to carry out the extremely reasonable payments imposed by the Dawes Report. With a loyalty for which I thank him, Mr. MacDonald renewed to me the assurance, which he had given to MM. Theunis and Hymans and which was asked for in a letter by M. Poincaré, that in case Germany failed to fulfill her obligations as laid down by the experts, who had acted in all independence and impartiality, Great Britain, like France, the guardian of contracts, would engage herself solemnly to side with...
Acting upon the formal advice of MM. Doumergue and Painleve, respectively Presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, President Alexandre Millerand sent for M. Edouard Herriot, Socialist Mayor of Lyons and leader of the Left Bloc...