Word: viviani
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noting that he looked fatigued, the judge asked him if he cared to rest for a few moments. Viviani did not reply, but gazed vacantly around the court and suddenly fell over his desk...
...Rene Viviani, former Premier of France, fainted in court from overwork...
...further the cause of peace, the villains of the piece were laying their nefarious plans. He tells of the surreptitious beginnings of the German war policy and leads up by stages to the open manifestations of that dread disease?Francophobia. Finally through a maze of diplomatic material M. Viviani, with true legal logic, proves his case for the prosecution. Some brief notes and excerpts: Of Bismarck: The author shows that Bismarck exercised a great influence in the early days of Wilhelm's reign. Some of his maxims are given: " Direct parliamentary government is to be avoided at any price, even...
...French Republic during that period immediately preceding the war and during the first fateful days of the German advance on the Marne. By profession he is a lawyer; in politics he is an independent socialist. A man renowned for his brilliant rhetoric, vivacious temperament and engaging personality, M. Viviani showed even greater qualities during those first days of the war, when the existence of France was rendered so precarious, by complete subjugation of all other interests to the task of leading his country through her terrible ordeal. He is sometimes called the Lloyd George of France...
...Viviani's answer to the ex-Kaiser's Memoirs...