Word: yvon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overseas territories are to him outlandish pawns, to be played coldly in diplomacy's great game. Last week M. Alexis Léger, much to his distaste, was obliged to quit his beloved Paris for a few days in order to coach Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos at London in the opening hands of a game for breathtakingly high stakes. Green as any card table was the big board at No. 10 Downing Street, and German diplomatic cards were dealt out by Viscount Halifax. Quietly, this lean, cadaverous British statesman laid the secret demands which Adolf...
...been valuable in furthering the desire, which I believe to be generally felt in both countries, for the establishment of a closer mutual understanding." This sounded so pro-German that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German, succeeded in getting French Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos invited to London, where they arrived this week to try to discover where His Majesty's Government stand...
...delegation to Brussels and urging the Conference to face "realities" (see col. j), there was no stomach for courting a Rebuff No. 3 among the tea-drinking statesmen of the Great Powers.* The so-called "Big Three"-Their Excellencies Norman Davis of Washington, Anthony Eden of London and Yvon Delbos of Paris-decided to wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely verbal ostracism with these words: "It is clear that the Japanese concept of the issues and interests...
...decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly concerned, Britain's Anthony Eden and France's Yvon Delbos. They used the Hotel des Bergues, where many of the League of Nations' most vital decisions are made in bedroom conferences, and before the week was out Britain, France and their satellite nations had agreed to hunt in the Mediterranean not only "pirate submarines" but also "pirate warships...
...were represented-Britain, France, Russia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, Egypt-and they were there to do something about the submarines that since the middle of August have preyed on neutral shipping attempting to run food, munitions and principally oil into Leftist Spanish ports. Very quickly French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos took the chair...