Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Tardieu memorandum to the Powers seriously jeopardized the Conference in advance (TIME, Jan. 6), by dragging in such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would be the cornerstone of their Great Peace (TiME, Oct. 21). If hard, kinetic, calculating M. Tardieu does not retreat at London a long way from his earlier positions there will be nothing to do but make a pact of less than five signatories, without France, or call the Conference a failure...
...Prime Minister of France, crowned with the laurels of great achievements as Minister of Public Works,* crowned again with a large measure of success at The Hague Conference (see p. 25), it is natural that Andre Tardieu should shine in a white halo of dazzling, electric, go-getting virtues. But his portrait has also been done in black by the European publicist Simson Carasco, no liar though he somewhat exaggerates...
...André Tardieu is corruption personified. He is the typical professional patriot that is to be found in every country. Furthermore, Tardieu endangers the peace of France both at home and abroad. A certain French politician has said of him that he resembles a pig in his enjoyment of filth and dirt, and his very name lends itself to a play on words: 'Tardieu,' or 'dieu des tares,' meaning 'god of imperfections.' One of the deputies in the Chamber said to him publicly, 'There are certain individuals whose dishonesty is universally recognized...
...During the War, the great patriot Tardieu went to America to buy ships for France but what he really did there still remains a mystery. He was also the man who, together with Klotz, the finance minister, liquidated the American stocks in France when the War was over. Poincare has characterized this liquidation as follows: 'Of the $2,933,000,000 that France spent in America on the War, $1,840,000,000 went into illegitimate profits.' The man responsible for this was Tardieu. And in conclusion we must also remark that it was he and not Klotz...
...York Sun, which has just availed itself of Consolidated Press Service, last week published a congratulatory letter from Prime Minister André Tardieu (L'Americain) of France. Said he: "I take particular pleasure in this because I was myself one of the Consolidated Press Association's earliest contributors when it inaugurated the happy plan of opening its wires to Europeans in political life, permitting them to express freely their views to the American public. ... So far as a government can exercise by frankness and honesty an educative influence on public opinion in both countries, I promise you that...