FRANCE'S PRIME MINISTER
One of the best-dressed of French politicians, M. Tardieu, is one of the few French Prime Ministers who have had a perfect control of the English language, and who have written a book in English. Of middle height, with a smiling countenance and grey eyes, which gleam behind his pince-nez, M. Andre Tardieu never forgets that his chosen vocation was that of ii journalist (says the London '-'Daily Mail." He is never so happy as when he meets his colleagues of former days with whom, he can chat about newspapers and .newspaper men. Foreign correspondents who have interviewed him always say that about three-quarters of their conversation has been spent discussing journalism and journalists, rather' than the questions which they had intended putting to him. Few Frenchmen have a better idea of British and American character. M. Tardicii combines with an unusual capacity for work a boy-like love of a good joke and of laughter, and this has bftea stood him in. good stead. British stateimea j&i3i£ -Ul-•" —--"t "iftiiifc
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 11
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173FRANCE'S PRIME MINISTER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 11
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