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Word: tardieu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who chiefly bore the great responsibility last week were the seven Chief Delegates of the Big Seven powers at the Geneva Conference. Of these the Chief British Delegate, Sir John Simon, was in London, hastily summoned by the Japanese crisis; and the Chief French Delegate, André Tardieu, was in Paris, hastily summoned by the French Cabinet crisis. The Chief German Delegate, Heinrich Brüning, was in Berlin; and the Chief U. S. Delegate, Henry Lewis Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reviving Chivalry | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...World's!" Not new, M. Tardieu merely gave a semblance of creation to the old, calm, logical French argument that only a real International Law, only a real League of Nations and only a real World Court can make sovereign states toe the line of International Decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Broadly M. Tardieu asked the Conference "to make a definite choice between a League of Nations possessing executive authority and a League of Nations paralyzed by the intransigencies of national sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Specifically M. Tardieu offered, subject to similar offers and approval all round, to place at the disposal of the League of Nations upon demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Minister, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, threw at Geneva his first Peace Bomb* and his Second? had there been so profound a sensation among professional Peace workers. Instantly the French Plan, like the Russian Plan, was damned and doomed?though, of course, everyone had to be infinitely more polite to M. Tardieu than they had been to Comrade Litvinov. The German delegation, frankly skeptical, protested that this was a disarmament conference, and where was there any Disarmament in M. Tardieu's words? They called the French security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine Roman cynicism the Italian delegation whispered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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