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Paul-Boncour

American  
[pawl-bawn-koor] / pɔl bɔ̃ˈkur /

noun

  1. Joseph 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.


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Britain's Eden was so struck with the happy idea behind all this that he rushed to the Press with a few kind words expressing his profound gratitude at the "helpfulness of M. Paul-Boncour."

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Captain Eden and M. Paul-Boncour outdid each other hemming & hawing.

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But M. Paul-Boncour is M. Paul-Boncour, a fashionable lawyer with a knack of creating well-bred sensations.

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During the Council debate French Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour scathingly declared that the shipment was sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners.

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He dropped Leagophile Joseph Paul-Boncour out of the Quai d'Orsay, put in as Foreign Minister Financier-Diplomat Georges Bonnet, recently Ambassador at Washington and still more recently Finance Minister.

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