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Chautemps

American  
[shoh-tahn] / ʃoʊˈtɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Camille 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.


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Suave, tactful and poker-faced, Premier Chautemps at 52 can look back upon a career which, until he entered politics, ran with exceptional smoothness in the groove of barrister.

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The Chautemps Cabinet further showed it meant business last week by vesting dictatorial powers for the governing of North Africa in a close friend of the Premier, onetime Premier Albert Sarraut.

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Meanwhile Georges Bonnet, hastily recalled from his post as French Ambassador at Washington to become Finance Minister under Premier Chautemps, had arrived.

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This week Premier Chautemps & Finance Minister Bonnet had not yet said what specific use they will make of their powers to act by decree.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Eric was instructed to get hold of M. Chautemps, the French Premier at the time, and ask that Chautemps instruct Delbos to stop frightening the British Foreign Secretary.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. Spivak

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