Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, is the union of pro-German and anti-Russian elements in France. The Leftists guessed the time had come to do something about M. Doriot when, three weeks aso, it became known that he had obtained control of La Liberte, the Paris daily long held by Conservative Andre Tardieu...
Only one of France's famed politicians took no open part in last week's campaign. He was André ("L'Americain") Tardieu, Premier in 1929-30. After a year and a half's retirement writing his memoirs on the Riviera, André Tardieu was reported ready to run for Parliament from Belfort, at the insistence of Belfort's boss, Senator Viellard, steel tycoon. M. Tardieu went to Belfort. but instead of announcing himself a candidate for the Chamber, he made his sponsor's ears burn by declaring that he was through with parliamentary...
...explanation for this. France's ablest Fascists are the Croix de Feu under the leadership of handsome but ineffective Colonel Frangois Casimir de la Rocque. Colonel de la Rocque has neither the plan nor the push to make a real dictator. Neither perhaps has André Tardieu. but he at least is a politician shrewd enough, if not brave enough, to know what to do with the Croix de Feu. if he ever gets his hands on it. A more hard-headed explanation: André Tardieu could not be elected...
Since the Great War, recalled M. Tardieu, nearly every French Premier from Briand and Herriot to himself, sought to persuade the Great Powers to bind themselves to back the League with an organized and rational machinery of Sanctions. "In 1924 the efforts of Herriot were foiled by the British and so eight years later were my own," declared André Tardieu. "During the Manchurian troubles Sir John Simon, as British Foreign Secretary, declared that under no pretext would His Majesty's Government permit their country to be drawn into a conflict...
...Great Britain has since then changed her mind," continued M. Tardieu, but he argued that 15 years of British sabotaging of proposals for Sanctions has left the League with no adequate or workable machinery for applying Sanctions...