Word: barthou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Louis Barthou...
Today, including the above elections, there are 37 members, among the most important of whom are: Litterateurs: Joseph Bédier, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier; Statesmen: Louis Barthou, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincaré, Jules Cambon; Soldiers: Les Maréchals Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Joffre, Louis Lyautey; Artists: Albert Besnard (the only one) ; Journalist: Georges Lecomte; Educator: Emile Picard...
...reports, before the Allied Governments should be required to act. ¶ The Reparations Committee held a series of conferences, chief of which was one with J. P. Morgan, U. S. banker. On the proposal of Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. unofficial observer of the Reparations Commission, M. Barthou, President of the Commission, and Sir John Bradbury, British member of the Commission, were appointed a committee to discuss with financiers of various countries ways and means of floating the $200,000,000 loan to Germany, recommended by the Dawes Committee. Messrs. Barthou and Bradbury were, therefore, presumed to have discussed...
...demise, Premier Poincaré of France suggested (through the Reparations Commission) the formation of two committees of experts from representatives of the Allied Powers and unofficial representatives from the U. S. All international obstacles having been removed and at least temporary unanimity having been established between the Allies, Louis Barthou, Chairman of the Reparations Commission, invited the various financial and economic experts from the interested European countries and the U. S. to become members of the two committees...
...position is now insecure and that his downfall may take place at any moment. The various candidates suggested to succeed him were ex-Premier Clemenceau, M. Louis Loucheur (former Minister of the Liberated Regions), M. Herriot (Mayor of Lyons and Leader of the Radical Socialist Party), M. Louis Barthou (head of the Reparations Commission) who was considered the most likely to be chosen as a "compromise selection...