Word: tardieu
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...Briand made exactly the same demand for a navy of 725,000 tons by 1936, and offered the same alternative M. Tardieu had proposed, namely that France will scale down if, and only if, the U.S. and Britain will give an assurance (any form will do: a treaty, an agreement, even proclamation by President Hoover and George V) that in the event France should be attacked she can at least count on the benevolent cooperation of London and Washington in restoring peace...
Relief work was begun by hordes of soldiers and firemen from all Southwestern France. Prime Minister Tardieu had Parliament appropriate...
...mentioned at the second Hague Conference (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). He charged then that the original Owen D. Young reparations plan, drawn up at Paris by world's greatest financiers (TiME, Feb. 18, 1929, et seq.), has now been so modified by politicians like Philip Snowden and Andre Tardieu that it is no longer the same thing. "Don't call it the 'Young Plan' any more!" snapped Dr. Schacht last week. "At the second Hague Conference the Young Plan was annihilated entirely...
...cabinet. He replied that, although recovered from his prostate trouble (TIME, Dec. 23), he has not the strength to re-enter politics just yet. As a matter of course the President's next play in the old fashioned game of Parliamentary euchre was to call on M. Tardieu to form Cabinet No. 20. It took him all the rest of the week to do it, and there was no guarantee that 20 would not go the way of 19; but such as it was, the new Cabinet, enabling grandiloquent friends of M. Tardieu to style him "twice Prime Minister...
...responsibility can be directly imputed to the American delegation, proceedings at the conference did at one time take a turn temporarily alarming to observers eagerly awaiting progress towards reduction of naval strength. It will be recalled that in the latter part of February France's prime-minister, Andre Tardieu, came forward with a demand for a total tonnage of seven hundred and twenty-five thousand tons for France by 1937. Such a program if consistently carried out would embody a possible substantial increase of both United States and British armament. Although the precipitate Tardieu subsequently lost his government temporarily...