Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War $3,404,000,000 worth of munitions and supplies was bought in the U. S. for France by one of gruff Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau's hard young men, M. Andrè Tardieu, who returned from Washington with thick-rimmed spectacles and a breezy pugnacity which made Frenchmen start calling him "Tardieu I'Américain"-no compliment intended. Last week at Lyon, in a witness box, M. Tardieu testified with what seemed to most Frenchmen like the brutality of an American gangster...
Referring to 1929, the year in which he first became Premier, Tardieu I'Américain testified: "At that time I had to deal with powerful forces for disorder and I though it was well to oppose them with forces of order. I had to meet action by some 400,000 or 500,000 Communists, and I thought the Croix de Feu was an interesting attempt to link the War generation with the generations of the future. I got very good service from the Croix de Feu. They kept order when and where I asked...
...trial at Lyon was a suit in which one of the aristocratic original founders of the Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...
Married. André Tardieu. 60. thrice (1929, 1930. 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mme Julia Angelique Largen-ton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...
Engaged. André Tardieu, 60-year-old threetime (1929, 1930, 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mile. Julia Angelique Largenton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...