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Died. André Tardieu, 68, bustling three-time Premier of France (1929, 1930, 1932), last surviving French signer of the Treaty of Versailles; after long illness; in Menton, France (according to the Swiss radio). Once known as "L'Américain" for his blunt, go-getting ways, he said before the war that Germany "neither wants nor is able to make...
Rugby Américain...
Sportswriters agreed that "rugby américain" would never catch on in France because "it was too much like an autobus collision." The part of the game the Parisians liked best was the huddle, "when they gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
...supplies was bought in the U. S. for France by one of gruff Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau's hard young men, M. Andrè Tardieu, who returned from Washington with thick-rimmed spectacles and a breezy pugnacity which made Frenchmen start calling him "Tardieu I'Américain"-no compliment intended. Last week at Lyon, in a witness box, M. Tardieu testified with what seemed to most Frenchmen like the brutality of an American gangster...
Referring to 1929, the year in which he first became Premier, Tardieu I'Américain testified: "At that time I had to deal with powerful forces for disorder and I though it was well to oppose them with forces of order. I had to meet action by some 400,000 or 500,000 Communists, and I thought the Croix de Feu was an interesting attempt to link the War generation with the generations of the future. I got very good service from the Croix de Feu. They kept order when and where I asked...