Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Naval Conference but reparations and the U. S. tariff put wrinkles in the brow of Prime Minister Tardieu last week. Fiery French speeches, parades, and burning editorials made a hectic week. It started with pandemonium in the Chamber of Deputies. In the debate on ratifying The Hague reparations agreements ("The Young Plan") chunky Edouard Herriot, perennial Mayor of Lyons, onetime radical Prime Minister (1926) thumped the tribune and boomed...
Came a hurricane of cheers, boos, whistles and the thunderclap banging of desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion...
...Before the week's close every single French delegate had left for Paris with the exception of Ambassador de Fleuriau, who had obvious reasons for staying be hind in his Embassy. In Paris Prime Minister Tardieu said that there was no possibility of his returning to the conference unless Lord there were "new developments." Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador, called on Foreign Minister Briand, begged him to come back to a moribund parley. The Frenchman had left London with the announcement that he "might come back if there was anything...
...last chance of any effective agreement at the London Naval Conference as distinguished from face-saving formulas largely depends on the outcome of conversations at Chequers today between Prime Minister MacDonald, Prime Minister Tardieu and Secretary Stimson. If today's discussions promise no change in the French thesis there will be no hope of adjustment...
When President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, both looking rather dour, returned to Paris last week after a flying trip to southwestern France, they could well appreciate why the tricolor banners flying from the walls of the gayest city were tied with black bands. For in, the region whence they had come new torrents of rain had followed thg tragic deluge of last fortnight (TIME, March 17), impeding rescue work, causing new catastrophes. Whole villages had been vacated, and in the city of Bordeaux the populace watched fearfully the rise of the mighty River Garonne, swollen by downpours...