Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the sod was tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
...Tardieu Cabinet was challenged in the French Chamber by Deputies of the Right?including onetime President Millerand?who charged that it is premature to think of returning the Saar to Germany now, even at a good price. With instant decision, One-Timer Tardieu demanded a vote of confidence, risked losing the Prime Ministry and much fun, won decisively by a majority of 93 votes...
...Please put no words into my mouth," begged Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, onetime political lieutenant of Clemenceau, as he issued from a last homage to his chief at 3 a. m. "All that I have to say is that in Death he lies magnificent and calm...
Equally egoistic was the funeral which Clemenceau demanded from France last week and which she humbly gave. "He asked that there be no state funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged out a 21-gun salute while the Father of Victory was buried in a hole dug in a briar patch at his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, a bleak region
...minutes later the Cabinet risked a second vote of confidence?not involving the Catholic issue?and increased their majority from 71 to 79. After one of the longest crises in French History, there was again a Government. With Tardieu and Briand in the saddle, the new Cabinet seemed certain to pursue the same conservative financial program and broadly pacific foreign policy which have been standard for three years under the Governments of Poincare (July 1926-July 1929) and Briand (July-October...