Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is little accounting for the Chamber of Deputies. The same Chamber that cut Prime Minister Tardieu's majority to seven, that gave Prime Minister Steeg a majority of ten and then booted him out, suddenly softened last week toward the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Laval, a man no bigger than either of his predecessors. To Prime Minister Laval the Chamber gave a handsome working majority of 54 on his first test vote, a vote that seemed to promise continuation of the Laval cabinet perhaps until after the presidential elections...
Experts saw back of this sizable vote the glittering pince-nez of André Tardieu, antepenultimate Prime Minister. Pierre Laval, son of a provincial butcher, once a hot Socialist but now leaning more and more to the Right, is known to be a protégé of Tardieu, who seems unable or unwilling to form a ministry of his own at this time...
...life of his government for at least three weeks by adjourning Parliament until the second Tuesday in January, the fateful 13th. The political spot-light shifted from the Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career...
Once again France was to have a government of the Left. The previous cabinet, that of youngster Andre Tardieu who fell two weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 15), was of the Right. Two other statesmen, Louis Barthou (Right) and Pierre Laval (Independent), tried and failed to form cabinets. It was definitely the turn of Left Oldster Theodore Steeg...
What master hand was seen behind all this? Obviously that of M. Tardieu, journalist by profession, and among journalists the most popular French Prime Minister of all time. For once the "power of the press" was being thrown full into the scale to aid a newspaperman. Chances that M. Tardieu would succeed himself as Prime Minister brightened hourly. If in Paris there were some guilty editorial consciences, this fact eased them: both Chamber and Senate are so evenly divided between Right and Left that no real preponderance exists. The last vote of confidence in the lower house supported the Tardieu...