Word: tardieu
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...Tardieu said, selon TIME last week...
...Tardieu...
Began one of the quietest debates in which a Cabinet was ever buried. Andre Tardieu, who had been Prime Minister of Cabinet No. 18, and was leading the attack on No. 19, merely sat with a pad and pencil in his hand, jotting little notes while his friends talked. Even Aristide Briand, whose intrigue was supposed to have brought down No. 18, and who told Chautemps whom to pick as Ministers for No. 19, did not speak. The leaders seemed to want the Chamber itself to speak decisively, if it could. Perhaps they knew it could not. By the meaningless...
...charge was hurled?with the typical recklessness of the Paris pamphleteer?that the fall last fortnight of the moderate French Cabinet of André Tardieu was the result of an international Socialist "plot." The British Socialists and their leader Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...Tardieu, an upstart compared to M. Briand who has been twelve times Prime Minister, had taken the risky course of forcing the astute old man to play second fiddle to his first, both at the second Hague Conference and at London (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). Briand, perhaps the greatest statesman and certainly the master politician of his time in France, would have been less than human had he not done something to stop the remark, often heard in Paris fortnight ago: "Tardieu has obliterated Briand...