Word: sarraut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interior: Albert Sarraut...
...confidence in the Army he has built. During the Munich crisis he believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that he got in 1936 from short-lived Premier Sarraut when he told the Government he could chase the Germans out of the Rhineland if they wanted him to. The thoroughgoing General would not agree to shove off, however, without ordering a general mobilization and M. Sarraut feared it was too close to the general election to risk it. The history...
Month ago the estimated number of Spanish refugees on French soil was 380,000. Last week French Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut revised the estimate upward to 450,000. Moreover, far from decreasing, the refugee population was steadily increasing. Hundreds were still slipping over the Catalan border. The Loyalist Navy's surrender in French Africa last week brought 4,000 more...
...signaled by releasing 10,000 white "Doves of Peace" from a huge, flower-decked cage. The 2.000,000 citizens of Paris who had turned out to sing and cheer realized in advance that they would scarcely glimpse Their Majesties, for every Frenchman knew that Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was going to take excessive measures for their protection-and knew why. In 1934, the assassination of Jugoslav King Alexander at Marseille occurred after Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut had taken only ordinary precautions. He had to resign from the Cabinet in disgrace, and only thanks to the great elasticity...
...evening's entertainment by such world favorites as Maurice Chevalier and Yvonne Printemps, staged for the King and Queen and about 120 guests. The party could be seen through the brightly lighted windows of the Palace. Popular cheers and impatience increased, and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut squirmed nervously on his chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains drawn, to shut out vague Danger. After the last star turn, the Queen, then the King were seen expressing themselves earnestly to the President and Mme Lebrun, finally won their point and appeared on the low balcony...