Word: poincarism
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...Raymond Poincarè (1913-1920), 66, lawyer, Senator, twice Minister of Finance, opened the Peace Conference, served for a year as President of the Reparations Commission, four times Premier. (See NEW CABINET.) His unquenchable patriotism, high courage, unflagging energy, and implacable hatred of Germany have never been questioned...
...definitely postponed, she drove up in an open Rolls Royce, sent her apologies to the Queen. She had not felt like playing, she said. Then, amid lusty English boos, she drove off. Said the London Daily News: "By being indisposed, Mile Lenglen has created a bigger sensation than if Poincaré had publicly embraced Caillaux...
...Distinguish between M. Poincaré and Briand in their attitudes toward Germany...
...Herriot, most potent of French party-coalition leaders but widely discounted as a statesman, had it in his power: 1) To lend impregnable strength of a Poincaré-Briand-Herriot government; 2) To frustrate completely M. Briand's efforts by holding himself and his cohorts aloof...
...Doumergue once more designated Aristide Briand as the one man in France who could and must form a Cabinet. M. Briand wired for Raymond Poincaré who had left Paris, presuming his presence redundant. The debacle of Herriot suggested that M. Painlevé or some third outstanding Left politician would be called upon to balance a Briand Right-and-Left Cabinet...