Word: barthou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis Barthou, President of the Reparations Commission, welcomed the committee, promised French cooperation in its work, for on its success, he declared, "depends the pacific equilibrium of the entire world." "We do not expect from you," he continued, "the unlocked for miracle of the reparation problem, but we hope with sincere confidence that your competency, experience and authority will concentrate to hasten the result toward which we are bending all our efforts...
...Allies, having sunk their differences by compromise, called upon M. Louis Barthou, Chairman of the Reparations Commissions, to invite the U. S. Government to send experts to sit on each of the two commissions of inquiry. M. Barthou wrote to Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. observer on the Reparations Commission, giving him further information required by U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes...
...Signed) LOUIS BARTHOU...
Herr Breitscheidt then suggested that Germany adopt the plan for payment of reparations put forward by M. Louis Barthou on behalf of France and M. Delacroix on behalf of Belgium, by which 35,000,000,000 gold marks were demanded. " What we object to in the plan," said he, " is the stipulation for the progressive evacuation of the Ruhr and its failure to reimburse Germany for the costs of maintaining the armies of occupation...
...adequate in dealing with a Mexico, but for a group of nations so economically interdependent as those on the European continent, it is an economic impossibility. Bankrupt Europe cannot long afford a war or wars, should they break out; all the great governmental representatives--M. Tchitcherin, M. Barthou, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor With--all of them,, like "all the King's horses and all the King's men" are powerless to change this fact. The tragedy is that they are also apparently powerless to effect cooperation...