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...hotter every day. erupted on the Sabbath. Deputies vowed they would not stomach Papa Cheron's proposed $213,000.000 of increased taxes and $208,000,000 of economies (TIME, Jan. 23). French postmen threatened to strike if their pay is axed. French veterans sent delegations to Premier Paul-Boncour pleading the "sanctity" of their pensions. Meanwhile the French Taxpayers' Union threatened a "tax strike" unless just such economies as cutting post-men's salaries and veterans' pensions are made. About the only cheerful message Papa Cheron received last week was from President Albert Lebrun of France...
Today, two short years afterward, France has squandered her surplus and faces a budgetary deficit of more than 10½ billion francs. Last month, when Premier Joseph Paul-Boncour succeeded Edouard Herriot, he begged Papa Chéron to come out of retirement and roll up a surplus again. After solemn thought (and probably some chest thumping) Chéron of Lisieux is Finance Minister again. Last week at a painful Cabinet session he told Premier Paul-Boncour & Ministers exactly what bitter pills must be swallowed if France is to have a sound, balanced budget again...
...stand the noise on the first floor!" cried temperamental new French Premier & Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour in the French Foreign Ministry last week, ordered his office moved upstairs into the Queen's Bedroom...
...slept, at one time or another, all of Europe's better queens, including England's Mary. As for noise, the first floor was not too noisy for the late, great Aristide Briand, eleven times Premier of France. Foreign Minister almost continuously for seven years. But M. Paul-Boncour is M. Paul-Boncour, a fashionable lawyer with a knack of creating well-bred sensations. He turned French decorators loose in the Queen's Bedroom, gave them carte blanche to make it a quiet, tasteful office. Also last week he completed long-distance negotiations with the German Government which...
...lend 100,000,000 schillings ($14,000,000) to Austria, this being Great Britain's share of the League loan totaling $43,000,000 to the Government of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Jan. 2). The Netherlands had meanwhile voted its share. Last week in Paris Premier Paul-Boncour asked the Chamber & Senate to chip in France's 100,000,000 schillings. Was this quite ethical...