Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge was hurled?with the typical recklessness of the Paris pamphleteer?that the fall last fortnight of the moderate French Cabinet of André Tardieu was the result of an international Socialist "plot." The British Socialists and their leader Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...Tardieu, an upstart compared to M. Briand who has been twelve times Prime Minister, had taken the risky course of forcing the astute old man to play second fiddle to his first, both at the second Hague Conference and at London (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). Briand, perhaps the greatest statesman and certainly the master politician of his time in France, would have been less than human had he not done something to stop the remark, often heard in Paris fortnight ago: "Tardieu has obliterated Briand...
...making it a question of confidence with the full approval of my chief, Prime Minister Tardieu...
Ordered to bed by his doctors he was unable to lead the fight in person. Pudgy André Cheron, France's chin-whiskered Minister of Finance took orders from his chief by telephone, directed the government's defense. In the Chamber of Deputies, three times the Tardieu-Cheron forces beat off the opposition. The deputies prepared to vote on a measure to reduce the income tax for married women. On the rostrum Pudgy Minister Cheron raised his hand...
...Chamber voted. The Government was defeated, 286 to 281. Twenty-two crestfallen ministers and undersecretaries of state left the chamber to gather round the bedstead of laryngetic André Tardieu, who vainly begged his doctor's permission to dress, deliver his resignation to President Doumergue in person. Reporters waylaid bleary-eyed Aristide Briand, asked if he would attempt to form another government. He shook his head...