Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flurry of nervous excitement diplomats gathered at Victoria station last week. Prime Minister Tardieu, absent a month, was returning to the Naval Conference for the weekend. Every member of the French delegation was on the platform ; Britain's first Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander rushed away from a football game at the Oval to extend felicitations. Ramsay MacDonald sent a messenger to remind M. Tardieu to be sure to motor out to Chequers for Sunday lunch. U. S. and Japanese assistant secretaries beamed a welcome. At the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of the French delegation, doors banged frantically...
...Briand made exactly the same demand for a navy of 725,000 tons by 1936, and offered the same alternative M. Tardieu had proposed, namely that France will scale down if, and only if, the U.S. and Britain will give an assurance (any form will do: a treaty, an agreement, even proclamation by President Hoover and George V) that in the event France should be attacked she can at least count on the benevolent cooperation of London and Washington in restoring peace...
Relief work was begun by hordes of soldiers and firemen from all Southwestern France. Prime Minister Tardieu had Parliament appropriate...
...mentioned at the second Hague Conference (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). He charged then that the original Owen D. Young reparations plan, drawn up at Paris by world's greatest financiers (TiME, Feb. 18, 1929, et seq.), has now been so modified by politicians like Philip Snowden and Andre Tardieu that it is no longer the same thing. "Don't call it the 'Young Plan' any more!" snapped Dr. Schacht last week. "At the second Hague Conference the Young Plan was annihilated entirely...
...Nobody outside of Germany," he shot back, "believes in Curtius' legalistic interpretation!" In fact, as everyone knows. Prime Minister Andre Tardieu is popular at Paris very largely because Frenchmen believe that he obtained the right of sanctions at The Hague. On the other hand, Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, who was matched against the shrewd Tardieu and the stubborn little Snowden, feels that he came off with the best deal possible under the circumstances, and is never tired of reminding his fellow Germans that France has agreed to take sanctions only in case the world court has first ruled that Germany...