Word: sarraut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Labor Albert Sarraut...
...suggested to retire Lyautey and allow Albert Sarraut, Minister of the Colonies in the Poincaré Cabinet, to succeed the soldier who has done so much to extend the French North African Empire. Marshall Lyautey has announced his intention of not resigning just yet. But politics are politics and something must be done for Sarraut, who has proclaimed his Intention of renouncing Parliamentary life after the next elections. It was reported that M. Sarraut had been offered the post of Governor-General of French Indo-China and of Ambassador at Washington, "both of-which he refused...
Morocco is the only place where M. Sarraut's activities will have free scope. He waits till M. Lyautey ends his colonial career, either of his own free will or by pressure. The French Government has found that, so far, the smallest hint of M. Lyautey's replacement is received with strong protests...
Paris was threatened with a ministerial crisis when the Radical and Radical Socialist parties called upon three members of Premier Poincaré's Cabinet to resign. The three Ministers: Senator Paul Strauss, Minister of Hygiene and Social Prevision; Deputy Albert Sarraut, Minister of Colonies, delegate to the Washington Conference; Deputy Paul Laffont, Under Secretary of Posts and Telegraphs...
Said Deputy Sarraut: "In present circumstances when some Republicans seem to be doubting my Republican faith, I am proud, though a Radical and Anticlerical, to remain at the side of that great patriot, Raymond Poincar...