Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris to London to sit in the Commons gallery during that fracas dashed the dynamic French Deputy who for months has been trying to upset the Laval Cabinet in order to dislodge France from the gold standard and start inflation or devaluation of the franc. Last week M. Paul Reynaud was back in Paris and, although no expert in foreign affairs, had primed himself to achieve his economic ends, if he could, by whipping up against Premier Pierre Laval a popular storm such as that which overwhelmed Sir Samuel Hoare...
...French Chamber Finance Committee last week Premier Flandin fought a sharp verbal duel with the No.1 French devaluationist, M. Paul Reynaud, who crowed: "I point to devaluation of the belga as evidence of the soundness of my position. It indicates that the gold bloc countries cannot go on indefinitely handicapping themselves in trade. This morning in Paris I can buy for 92 francs Belgian goods that cost 120 francs before the belga was devalued...
Former Premiers Tardieu and Herriot were appointed a committee of two to formulate a plan to reduce France's abnormally high living costs. Toward the very vital problem of parliamentary reform, Deputy Paul Reynaud, like Gastounet Doumergue long an admirer of the British House of Commons, last week advanced two proposals which were immediately approved by the Parliamentary sub-commission...
...Cabinet: President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs-Andre Tardieu. Vice President of the Council, Minister of Justice and Controller of Administration-Paul Reynaud. Interior-Albert Mahieu. Finance-Pierre Etienne Flandin. National Defense-François Pietri. Public Instruction-Mario Roustan. Public Works, Communications and Merchant Marine-Charles Guernier. Commerce and Posts-Louis Rollin. Labor-Pierre Laval. Public Health-Camille Blaisot. Agriculture-Dr. Claude Chauveau. Colonies-Louis de Chappedelaine. Pensions and Liberated Regions-Auguste Champetier de Ribes...
March: Faced by Red riots in French Indo-China, the Premier convened the High Colonial Council in Paris for the first time in three years and studied critically the results of guillotining 700 native Communists in the past two years?with the result that Minister of Colonies Paul Reynaud is now in the Far East "sympathetically examining native grievances...