Word: tardieu
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...Washington Acting Secretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton heard similar criticisms. His reply, like that of André Tardieu when harassed in the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Dec. 30), was: "This business of shooting at the piano player is an indoor sport I deplore...
Before assembled naval delegates, crisp businesslike Prime Minister André Tardieu demanded for France a total of 725.000 tons by 1937 in order to give her absolute parity with Italy in the Mediterranean, and to offset the 144,000 tons allowed Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. This program, if built, would give France not only the largest submarine fleet in the world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge...
...Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...
Other distinguished French persons who have been associated with the Cercle in the past are Jules Cambon, Andre Tardieu, and Sarah Bernhardt...
Correspondents were told that Negative Stimson would soon follow the lead of Positive Tardieu by laying down a similar hand for the U. S. when enough cards are on the table there can begin, not the game, but a shuffle and first deal. "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud), pungent correspondent of L'Echo de Paris, wired to his paper: "Secretary Stimson was overheard to re-mark : 1 wish this conference would waste a good deal more time...