Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux, most irrepressible of political Napoleons, joined with that hardy perennial statesman, M. Briand, last week, in the formation of one of the most curious Cabinets yet vouchsafed to France. Briand, as Premier and Foreign Minister, assumed the nominal generalship and resumed his long standing control of the Foreign Office. Caillaux, in the especially-created role of Vice Premier and Minister of Finance, took upon himself the fiscal rehabilitation of France-a task at which he failed notoriously, as Finance Minister under M. Painlevé(TIME, Nov. 9). The New Cabinet...
Once again the great name of Raymond Poincaré was heard. His incorruptibility is a byword. His energy and ability have enabled him to become a much sought lawyer, a self-made man of wealth, a statesman of primatical fame. He has been twice Premier (1911-13; 1922-24) and throughout the War and peace negotiations was President of France (1913-20). It was felt last week that if M. Poincaré would consent to assume the portfolio of finance, solidarity would be given at least to the fiscal policy of France. M. Poincaré (Right: ultra-anti-German) signified...
...Herriot, most potent of French party-coalition leaders but widely discounted as a statesman, had it in his power: 1) To lend impregnable strength of a Poincaré-Briand-Herriot government; 2) To frustrate completely M. Briand's efforts by holding himself and his cohorts aloof...
...statesman of international stature to stumble upon this domestic molehill? Dr. Benes, interviewed by pressmen, seemed disconcertingly cheerful...
Died. Baron Hans Hermann von Berlepsch, 83, scholar, statesman; in Berlin. He was appointed Prussian Minister of Commerce (1890) by Wilhelm II, who thereby ousted Prince Bismarck from that post (which he held in addition to the Chancellory), and gave warning that he would soon "drop the pilot...