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Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ pwɛ̃kaʁe]; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability.
The French Premier Raymond Poincaré was deeply reluctant to order the occupation and had only taken this step after the British had rejected his proposals for more moderate sanctions against Germany. [67] By December 1922, Poincaré was faced with Anglo-American-German hostility; coal supplies for French steel production were running low. [68]
Raymond Poincaré, the French prime minister, hoped for joint Anglo-French economic sanctions against Germany but opposed military action. By December 1922, however, he saw coal for French steel production and payments in money as laid out in the Treaty of Versailles draining away.
Raymond Poincaré's speeches as Prime Minister in 1912, and then as president in 1913–14, were similarly firm and drew widespread support across the political spectrum. [11] Only the socialists were holdouts, warning that war was a capitalist ploy and should be avoided by the working class.
Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani (French: [ʁəne vivjani]; 8 November 1863 – 7 September 1925) was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister for the first year of World War I.
Pétain and French President Raymond Poincaré, on the other hand, made it their policy to mend the French Army's morale and to avoid acting in a way that could aggravate the loss. Possible execution at Verdun during the mutinies in 1917. The original French text accompanying the photograph notes that the uniforms are those of 1914/15 and that ...
Raymond Poincaré [9] – President of France (1913–1920) René Viviani – Prime Minister of France (1914–1915) Aristide Briand – Prime Minister of France (1915–1917) Paul Painlevé – Prime Minister of France (1917) Georges Clemenceau – Prime Minister of France and Minister of War (1917–1920) Adolphe Messimy – Minister of War ...
The Commission elected a chair among the delegates for a renewable one-year term. [3]: 10-11 The first chair elected in 1920 was France's Raymond Poincaré.Arthur Salter was appointed the first Secretary General to the commission, [5] a position he held from 1920 to 1922. [6]