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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...documents from the Russian secret archives which L'Humanité published in 1923, it appears that Tardieu received regular payments during the years of 1912 and 1913 from the secret fund of the Russian government, to support Russian policy in the columns of Le Temps, where he wrote the leading articles on foreign politics, and, as a true servant of the Tsar, attacked the French ambassador in Saint Petersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sitting Down | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Pact to make it the basis for cutting her cruiser fleet from 70 to 50 ship?, which she is now ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sitting Down | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Morgan, Dillon & Kreuger. Not less but if possible more pugnacious than Chancellor Snowden was Prime Minister of France Andre Tardieu (see front cover and p. 23). He hammered at the Germans day after day, trying to browbeat them from the three main positions taken by Dr. Curtius: 1) That Germany is entitled under the Young Plan to declare a moratorium at any time, should she deem herself unable to go on paying reparations; 2) That she shall not be liable to "sanctions" (military punishment) by the Allies for suspending payments in good faith because she cannot pay; 3) That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hague Wrangle | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Once when Dr. Curtius asked leave to bring in one of the German experts, M. Tardieu snapped: "Bring in whomever you like! But-I repeat it-France will not yield!" (Many Paris editors chorused praise of the "dignity and firmness" of this typical Tardieuism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hague Wrangle | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...France was able to stop that (TIME, Dec. 30). I have information that as soon as this conference is over you will turn for your $100,000,000 to Ivar Kreuger [famed tycoon-director of the Swedish Match Trust, lender of millions to many a hard-up government]." M. Tardieu finished with a flat declaration that France would not give Germany the benefits of the Young Plan unless the German Government promises not to issue bonds liable to hurt the sale of Reparations Bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hague Wrangle | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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