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Since the Accord de Con fiance soon provoked last week an indignant blast from President Hoover and since Le Temps of Paris called it "the most important international act in recent world history," observers scrutinized the full text...
...realization of the effect which the Havas dispatch would and did quickly produce on President Hoover and U. S. public opinion. Havas retracted not one word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote in the Paris newspaper of the Agence Economique...
This confirmed Havas and undoubtedly represented the real views of the French Government last week. L' Ere Nouvelle, personal organ of Premier Herriot, exulted: "The Accord de Con fiance constitutes on the same basis as the Locarno and Briand-Kellogg pacts one of the most important political events on an international scale since Versailles...
...There is no truth in any statement that the Anglo-French declaration [Accord de Confiance] is applicable to the question of British debts to the U. S. The use in the declaration of the words 'European regime' expressly excludes from its purview any questions affecting the non-European countries...
Privately French officials called this British statement a mass of weasel words uttered to impress U. S. public opinion but contrary to the letter of the Accord de Con fiance which Britain signed. What Europe owes, they asserted, most certainly "affects the European regime" and is therefore explicitly included in (not excluded from) the purview of the Accord de Con fiance...