Word: rard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangement seemed so near to going through that Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet announced that Jules Henry, French Ambassador to Spain, would not return to Loyalist territory. Senator Léon Bérard, who has already been to Rebel Spain on one "unofficial" mission, returned to Burgos, this time for "official" negotiations. Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent to Rebel Spain, began long talks with Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, Rebel Foreign Minister...
...terms with Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government. Unlike Britain, she has sent no friendly, trade mission to Burgos. Last week, however, France thought the time had come to begin a series of diplomatic flirtations if not an actual marriage. Hawk-beaked Rightist Senator Léon Bérard of the Basses-Pyrenees Department entrained for Burgos from Paris. His trip, he and the French Foreign Office said, was unofficial, but there was no doubt that he had been sent by Premier Edouard Daladier's Government to sound out the possibility of establishing "friendly relations...
...through eight big galleries in Rockefeller Center's International Building, found rare things in rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French...
...Other countries have instituted 'tourist money' and 'tourist privileges' while France has offered a premium to French tourist agencies to get tourists to travel in other countries!" cried M. Gaston-Gérard. "Our railway travel costs nearly twice as much as in Great Britain. The price of gasoline in France is prohibitive and tourists no longer bring their cars. While other countries make tourists welcome we start taxing them as soon as they disembark...
Other Deputies took up the chorus until new Premier Leon Blum's Cabinet finally had to make rebuttal. To Deputy Gaston-Gérard's specific, constructive proposal that a cheapened 'tourist franc' be introduced, the Cabinet returned a flat "non" merely promised to spend a little more "pour encourager le tourisme...