Word: sarraut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cartel des Gauches or Coalition of the Left Parties, which has been the strongest influence in French politics for 25 years. These men include Minister of Education Edouard Herriot, who has bungled so often as Prime Minister, Louis Loucheur "the richest man in France," and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut. Their orbit usually encompasses such more independent socialists as famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and that great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlev...
Their plan was simple, shrewd. At noontime, while Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was lunching, a young Royalist entered a telephone booth in the Ministry of Interior. He called the Prison Santé, asked for its Director, M. Catry, and mimicking the voice of an assistant of Minister Sarraut, ordered that M. Léon Daudet and two other prisoners should be instantly released from jail...
...Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier has attained moderate sale in the U. S.* Minister of Public Works Tardieu is known for his America in Arms. The Izaak Walton of the Cabinet is Minister of Colonies Perrier, who has brought forth two books on fishing. Minister of Interior Sarraut has written much on civil government. Finally there stand on many a Parisian bookshelf two fat volumes of poems by Minister of Marine Leygues...
...steamer Lotus who had been jailed in defiance of international law when the Lotus recently rammed and sank in a heavy fog the Turkish ship Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first Ambassador to occupy the new French Legation at the nouveau capital of Turkey, Angora, a town still chiefly com posed...
...Poincaré and Briand are, re- spectively, as flaming war-oil and quenching peace-water. Briand has just fought and been defeated by Herriot in a political death grapple which Briand described on the floor of the Chamber as a "per- sonal duel." MM. Briand, Herriot, Painlevé and Sarraut are of the Left; MM. Poincaré, Tardieu and Bokanowski are of the Right...