Word: tardieu
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...right hand of His Majesty sat the new Prime Minister of France, spruce, go-getting André Pierre Gabriel Amédee Tardieu, and next to him the shaggy, great old man who started the idea of the Briand-Kellogg peace pact, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, dozing with a deceptive air of inattention next to Minister of Marine Georges Leygues...
...queer fact that French shipyards rivet together no cargo boats but build only passenger ships was excitably commented on last week by buoyant Louis Rollin who, now rejoicing in the title of French Minister of Marine, is one of the most irrepressible go-getters in the Cabinet of "Tardieu l'Américain...
Once when Dr. Curtius asked leave to bring in one of the German experts, M. Tardieu snapped: "Bring in whomever you like! But-I repeat it-France will not yield!" (Many Paris editors chorused praise of the "dignity and firmness" of this typical Tardieuism...
...France was able to stop that (TIME, Dec. 30). I have information that as soon as this conference is over you will turn for your $100,000,000 to Ivar Kreuger [famed tycoon-director of the Swedish Match Trust, lender of millions to many a hard-up government]." M. Tardieu finished with a flat declaration that France would not give Germany the benefits of the Young Plan unless the German Government promises not to issue bonds liable to hurt the sale of Reparations Bonds...
Shoulder to shoulder with M. Tardieu stood Mr. Snowden. and thumb-snapped at the Germans...