Word: poincares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Savior-hero of Alsace-Lorraine is dry, statistical old Raymond Poincaré, War-time president of France. When he went a-visiting last week with Mme Poincare to Kayserberg, Alsatians were happy, thronged Kayserberg's Hotel de Ville. A pretty girl with flaxen hair stepped from their midst and spoke with plain dignity...
...Poincaré kissed the child. The unemotional old man stood still. His lips moved. His face was taut. He gestured faintly. There was a long moment of fragile silence. Gradually one realized that he, several army officers and many of the populace were in tears...
...same afternoon there was a banquet. M. Poincaré spoke. He talked of Alsace in war and in peace. Finally he said...
...paused. Again there was an interval of tense quiet, ending in thunderous applause. Unable to finish, M. Poincaré sat down...
...Paris, shaggy-browed Aristide Briand immediately sent for German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering...