Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...challenged in the French Chamber by Deputies of the Right?including onetime President Millerand?who charged that it is premature to think of returning the Saar to Germany now, even at a good price. With instant decision, One-Timer Tardieu demanded a vote of confidence, risked losing the Prime Ministry and much fun, won decisively by a majority of 93 votes...
...Please put no words into my mouth," begged Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, onetime political lieutenant of Clemenceau, as he issued from a last homage to his chief at 3 a. m. "All that I have to say is that in Death he lies magnificent and calm...
...disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
...Clemenceau was 66 when he first became Prime Minister in 1906. He styled himself "an old debutant," worked passionately to achieve the Entente with England...
...citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative...