Word: tardieu
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...dynamically proposed to build anew. Said he in effect: the Conference had better scrap that confused wad of paper over which European statesmen have fought and contradicted each other for years, the so-called League of Nations Draft Convention for the Disarmament Conference. Instead, the go-getter, M. Andre Tardieu, proposed his plan, the plan of France...
...World's!" Not new, M. Tardieu merely gave a semblance of creation to the old, calm, logical French argument that only a real International Law, only a real League of Nations and only a real World Court can make sovereign states toe the line of International Decency...
Broadly M. Tardieu asked the Conference "to make a definite choice between a League of Nations possessing executive authority and a League of Nations paralyzed by the intransigencies of national sovereignty...
Specifically M. Tardieu offered, subject to similar offers and approval all round, to place at the disposal of the League of Nations upon demand...
...delegates Swanson and Woolley met their two colleagues at Geneva last week, a swarm of nearly 1,000 delegates and representatives of other nations were also converging on League headquarters. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi headed the Italian delegation. André Tardieu led the Frenchmen. Chairman of the whole Conference was sober "Uncle Arthur" Henderson of Britain. Hopeful and variously important personages crammed every hotel room in Geneva which had erected a special building for the Conference and presented it to the League...