Word: tardieu
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...Must One Die?" With no sure majority anywhere and with party leaders sulky, it was necessary to appeal to the whole Chamber?Right, Center and Left ?in an effort to split or stampede blocks and groups. As a keen, go-getting logician fond of dates and statistics, M. Tardieu knew that he could not depend on himself to kindle and fire the Deputies. He left the ignition to great Aristide Briand, Europe's supreme Parliamentarian...
Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...
Grandeur into Facts. With the Chamber molten, Prime Minister Tardieu leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...
...such positive, commanding words Deputies of the Right pricked up their ears. The whole Chamber began to sense that here was another Strong Man, like the men who are his backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week...
...snapped M. Tardieu, the Government would not "pronounce 'laicisms'"? and suddenly he demanded a vote of confidence, staked his whole political future shrewdly on a word. The shrewdness lay in that he had neatly chosen an issue on which the Government could not fail to command the Catholic vote...