Word: tardieu
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...Andre Tardieu gave the first of this year's Hyde lecture on "La France et les Alliances," yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 introduced the speaker, whose subject for the day was "La France et l'Alliance Russe...
...Tardieu told the story of the Franco-Russian alliance. He divided it into three periods: preparation, deviation, and regeneration. The period of preparation lasted until 1891. It was not easy to bring together France and Russia, between whom there was so much difference. Nevertheless it was finally realized that, as Bismarck had said, a Franco-Russian alliance must result from the very nature of things and that it was a geographical necessity...
With the alliance once completed between the two countries, continued M. Tardieu, they were wrong in laying so much stress on political appearances, on shows of protocols, journeys, festivities, and banquets, in which France, as a democratic country, was at a disadvantage. This disadvantage became evident in political relations, and France allowed Russia to engage in political affairs in Manchuria, a policy injurious to both...
...positions, past and present, M. Tardieu has been brought into relation with most of the diplomatic leaders in Europe. He owes to these relations his extensive knowledge of the questions of the day. During the Moroccan crisis in 1905-1906, he played an important part, and exerted an undeniable influence upon the course of events. He published a book entitled "The Conference of Algeciras," containing revelations as accurate as they were unexpected. M. Tardieu is also the author of another work, "Diplomatic Questions," which was "crowned" by the French Academy, and in which is found the same quality of intimate...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. 1. "La France et. I'Alliance russe." M. Andre Tardieu. Sanders Theatre...