Word: tardieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...panel of statesmen to whom France turns when she needs a new Premier, M. André Tardieu, slashing political disciple of Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, sits high...
When it was a question of "Sacred Union to Save France" in 1934, the Right lent Tardieu and the Left lent Herriot to do nothing as Ministers of State but lend their prestige to the Doumergue Cabinet. When distracted "Papa" Doumergue decided that the sheer rascality of Paris politics left him no alternative but to retire to his farm, M. Tardieu resigned as Minister of State, announcing, "I retire with Doumergue...
Last week his hat came sailing back into the ring. Tardieu began a comeback with the peculiar maneuver of resigning from the Republican Centre Party and attacking its President Paul Reynaud for having attacked fortnight ago Premier Pierre Laval and the Hoare-Laval Deal to dismember Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 6). The effect of this slash from a claw of "Tiger" Clemenceau's cub was that within 24 hours M. Reynaud was obliged to resign his Party's Presidency and demands were heard that M. Tardieu be elected his successor...
...scapegoat (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this trans-Channel junket seemed likely to blast many of M. Reynaud's political ambitions. As he went down under the Tiger's Cub, millions of Frenchmen pondered with care the exposition of the Ethiopian Question given by André Tardieu. Excerpt...
...cabinet, the youngest Premier met remarkably few rebuffs. French politicians realized that a prolonged crisis would surely lead to riots. M. Laval, of course, was already in the Foreign Office and Premier Flandin was glad enough to leave his old chief there. His other old chief, M. André Tardieu, had just had an operation. 'T go into retirement with M. Doumergue," he observed dramatically when M. Flandin offered him a portfolio. But M. Tardieu hinted that he will be all right in a few weeks, by which time there may be another Cabinet crisis...