Word: caillaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitor was a little late, so the Chancellor had had time to glance at his mail before the door of the reception room opened and an official person announced: M. Joseph Caillaux and M. de Fleurian. In walked a strange creature, a bald-headed man with a trimmed mustache, the ends of which it seemed he ought to twirl. He was smiling and his luminous eyes gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations...
...134Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, was shot by Mme. Caillaux. Clemenceau brought about Caillaux's trial and conviction as a Defeatist. Ignace represented the Ministry of Justice in drawing up the prosecution for the trial...
...Caillaux has not the facility with la langue anglaise of his compatriot, M. Briand, who two weeks ago paid so amiable a visit to England concerning the proposed security pact with Germany. But the keenwitted French master of finance doubtless counts himself fully equal to the problem of dealing with Mr. Churchill on the question of France's debt to England...
...Sept. 16. The English wish to get enough from their French and other debtors, and from German reparations to pay the annual remittance on their debt to the U. S.- ?33,000,000 at present. They are asking ?20,000,000 a year from France.-M. Caillaux is expected to offer ?10,000,000. A compromise is not impossible at a figure something like...
Sticking hard to his intention to speak only English in the negotiations M. Caillaux addressed photographers who met him at Victoria Station with very carefully enunciated words...