Word: viviani
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes" and preferred an extra-League Security Treaty, for the present. 3) He was answered by M. Paul Boncour, for France, on whom the dead Viviani's mantle as an orator has descended, in a pro-League speech of wonderful eloquence but neglegible moment...
...years ago, Rene Viviani, war Premier of France, fell, a huddled heap, over the grave of Isabelle Vouhelier-Lepelletier, his wife, His great voice which on a thousand platforms had been a "kaleidescope of sound" choked with broken sobs...
Died. Rene Viviani, 62 French Statesman (Premier in 1914), noted attorney, creator with Briand and Millerand in 1904 of the Republican Socialist Party, enlightened and patriotic pacifist, member of the Briand "Sacred Union" the War Cabinet which included every then living former Premier, "as an orator unequaled in the history of France"; of "complete collapse following illness", at the Malmaison Sanitarium...
Lawyers noted with interest that the firm of former Premier Viviani of France appeared on behalf of Mr. Frank J. Gould when he unsuccessfully sought a temporary injunction to restrain his divorced wife. Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall. Henri Robert appeared for the defendant...
...Viviani, lawyer, is 60 years of age. He was Premier when war was declared in August, 1914. A year later he resigned in order to facilitate the formation of a coalition government. Early last year he retired from official life to return to his legal practice. His book, As We See It (an animadversion upon Wilhelm II), was recently published in America, and was reviewed in TIME...