Word: viviani
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...cope with the German invasion, the famed Union Sacree was formed with the Rooseveltian M. Rene Viviani as Premier (Aug. 26, 1914). It was this government which removed to Bordeaux (Sept. 2, 1914) when the German advance was at its height. The second Wartime Union Sacree was formed with M. Briand as Premier...
...They were: Briand himself (Premier and Foreign Minister), Viviani (Justice), Ribot (Finance), Doumergue (Colonies), Meline (Agriculture), and, serving as "Ministers without Portfolio," Combes, Leon Bourgeois and de Freycinet...
...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...
...priest was present. Born in Sidi-bel-Abbes, headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Africa, Viviani was forever fearless. He desired to be forever free, but two passions ruled him: One, "la France;" one, "l'Isabelle...