Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what...
Pacified and intrigued by such unanswerable "American arguments," the Deputies next day gave the Tardieu Government a vote of confidence, 331 to 167. Paradoxically, Tardieu the pseudo-American proclaimed later in the week a policy in regard to the Hoover-MacDonald Five Power Naval Conference which might prove obnoxious to...
As was expected, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson was quick to quash this League talk. "American participation in the Five Power Disarmament Conference," he wrote, "will be separate, distinct, and apart from the League of Nations."*
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M...
* The U. S. note accepting Britain's invitation to the Conference described the latter as "a discussion which will anticipate the problem raised under Article 21 of that [the Washington, 1922] treaty, as well as broaden its whole scope."