Word: tardieu
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Retribution was swift on Prime Minister Tardieu for nearly wrecking the conference. Returning to Paris for the weekend he was stricken with acute laryngitis, lost his government on a vote of no confidence...
...making it a question of confidence with the full approval of my chief, Prime Minister Tardieu...
Three months ago kinetic André Tardieu, also with a woefully weak government* became Prime Minister of France. The MacDonald strategy seemed to him excellent, he too concentrated on foreign affairs. Hectically he dashed back and forth to Geneva, to The Hague, to London but though he nearly wrecked the Naval Conference last week in his desire to show the world the might of France, results at home were less satisfactory. Last week ill with laryngitis, he returned to Paris in an attempt to cope with the rising opposition of radicals, socialists...
Ordered to bed by his doctors he was unable to lead the fight in person. Pudgy André Cheron, France's chin-whiskered Minister of Finance took orders from his chief by telephone, directed the government's defense. In the Chamber of Deputies, three times the Tardieu-Cheron forces beat off the opposition. The deputies prepared to vote on a measure to reduce the income tax for married women. On the rostrum Pudgy Minister Cheron raised his hand...
...Chamber voted. The Government was defeated, 286 to 281. Twenty-two crestfallen ministers and undersecretaries of state left the chamber to gather round the bedstead of laryngetic André Tardieu, who vainly begged his doctor's permission to dress, deliver his resignation to President Doumergue in person. Reporters waylaid bleary-eyed Aristide Briand, asked if he would attempt to form another government. He shook his head...