Word: tardieu
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Just as everyone expected, the Cabinet of Premier Laval fell and was reassembled last week; former Premier Andre Tardieu was pushed into the post he was far from anxious for, that of Minister of War; and M. Laval himself took on the duties of Foreign Minister as well as Premier. Suddenly the Surete-General clamped down a strict press censorship. International cable messages were delayed for hours. Though nothing drastic happened, there were numerous incidents in the week's news that might have been misinterpreted...
...seemed the best way out of a difficult situation. Premier Laval offered the Ministry of War to his former superior, Andre Tardieu. M. Tardieu was in no hurry to accept it. In France no one can remain Minister of War who does not talk and act like a Nationalist. As Premier only a year ago Andre Tardieu was building an international reputation as a moderate, a conciliator. He still hopes for a chance to replace extraordinarily lucky Pierre Laval. Laval fought earnestly to save his Government by forcing Andre Tardieu, now Minister of Agriculture, into...
...Tardieu skyrocket went up, twice. In the first Tardieu Cabinet there was no Pierre Laval; in the second he was unobtrusively Minister of Labor; and when this Cabinet fell his chance almost came. Briand and Tardieu both insisted that Laval be asked to form a Cabinet. He tried and he failed, because by a typical quirk of "loyalty to my friend André" (Tardieu) he insisted that in a Cabinet of which he was Premier his friend must be a Minister. To form a cabinet including Friend Andre at that moment proved impossible. Again M. Laval slipped into obscurity...
...courteous but absolute refusal, suggesting Pierre Laval. By this time the Oustric scandal was somewhat cold, the constantly shifting lineup of the Chamber had altered, and sturdy Auvergnat Laval was able not only to form a Cabinet but to smuggle into it as Minister of Agriculture his friend André Tardieu...
Thoroughly befuddled were such correspondents as supposed Andre Tardieu to be roughly ten times as big a man as Pierre Laval. One cabled: "The Tardieu Cabinet has been reformed with Laval as Premier." Others assumed that Protégé Laval would dance inevitably to Patron Briand's tunes. Scarcely anyone realized the tremendous will-to-rule of the Man of the Year. Perhaps Georges Mandel, long the most intimate colleague of "Tiger" Clemenceau. had a glimmering of what was coming. "The Laval Cabinet has nothing to fear," he wrote. "It will last if it gives the impression that it is working...