Word: poincarã
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...Victory. Early in the week the long Chamber debate on the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. M. Briand was kept sharply under fire by those die-hard anti-German militarists, the adherents of former Premier Poincar??. They could see nothing in Locarno but a delusive bait to seduce France from seeking the armaments and the great military alliances upon which they consider that true security from German aggression must rest. Cried M. Maginot, a trusted lieutenant of Poincare: "We cannot vote for the Locarno Treaty, for it means the disarmament of France in front of Germany, who does...
...Andre Maginot, ex-Minister of War in the Poincar?? Cabinet and leader of the Nationalist Opposition, said that the Government's proposal was accept able to his party, but that it could not tolerate M. Caillaux's presence in the Cabinet. "There still is in this country," he asseverated, "too great grief, too many mourners, too many wounded men for us to tolerate that...
...Premier got over the difficulty by making a moderate speech. His references to the Herriot Government were fleeting: he confined himself principally to attacking the Clemenceau and Poincar?? Governments, attacks which at various times brought forth cries of : "Clemenceau must be sent be fore the firing squad." "Let Poincar?? take Caillaux's place before the High Court...
...went on to accuse "the Nationalist gentlemen" (Clemenceau, Poincar?? and their ilk) for all their financial blunders and their propaganda against the Left parties...
...experience has earned for him the epithet of "best trained diplomat in the French service." He has held posts in the Embassies at London and Madrid and was Minister to Lisbon and Bucharest. In the Quai d'Orsay he has served under such eminent statesmen as Premiers Rouveer and Poincar?? and the famed League of Nations champion, Senator Leon Bourgeois...