Word: yvon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign field seemed to present a more effective picture. It was one of the largest and best to appear at Forest Hills in recent years, including Japan's No. 1 Jiro Yamagishi, France's No. 2 Yvon Petra, England's No. 2 Charles Edgar Hare. England's No. 1 Bunny Austin was not there, but Budge had already given him a conclusive beating this year in the Davis Cup challenge round. The player who seemed to stand firmly in Donald Budge's path, however, was none of these. At Forest Hills for the first time...
...Paris, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. lunched with French Vice-Premier Leon Blum, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
Down but far from out, Socialist Blum had reappeared in the Chautemps Cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of State, and back with him were 21 erstwhile Blum Cabinet members, including Yvon Delbos who continues as Foreign Minister. The one Socialist thrown to the Senate wolves was Blum's droopy-eyed Finance Minister Vincent Auriol who made such an utter mess of devaluation, but even shifty Auriol was included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps...
British statesmen have been increasingly impressed by Leon Blum and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos as two Frenchmen singularly ready to hitch their foreign policy to the apron strings of Downing Street. Last week French fiscal policy had been hitched, temporarily at least, to the apron strings of the Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, pending the arrival of Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation...
...joining the anti-Communist pact of Germany and Japan, under Article II of which non-Communist States are invited to join. This much relieved Socialist Premier Leon Blum of France. It was understood that the position of both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept. France does not wish to add to the all-too-real causes for conflict...