Word: caillaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux appeared, one bright morning last week, before the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. To the gentlemen present he said that the "balanced" budget devised by his predecessor M. Clementel was in reality short on the credit side some three and a half billion francs. It appeared that M. Clementel was banking on receipts from Germany which had not been received-a favorite French practice-and had neglected altogether a mere matter on the debit side of some...
Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was reported to have said to U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick that the French Government might be able to pay the U. S. Government $100,000,000 a year, provided that such payment was understood to depend on French receipts from Germany under the operation of the Experts' Plan, without which France would not be in a position to pay anything. This suggestion (not to be regarded as an offer) was forwarded to Washington and a reply was anxiously awaited. It was understood, however, that any definite action would follow only on the settlement...
...financial eyes fixed Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux with a world stare. With the British back on a gold basis (see Page 6), what did he intend...
...Caillaux did not answer at once. On two occasions, he received U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Garrard B. Winston (on one occasion accompanied by U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick) but, for the most part, he shut himself up in his departmental office and refused to be seen. Then came strange rumors of financial "novations" and "painful financial penance." Finally, the Finance Minister spoke...
Foreign developments again demanded attention in financial and business circles. Just as the Hindenburg election eclipsed in public opinion the French financial scandals and the resurgence of M. Caillaux, so the German election was ousted from public attention, last week, by the momentous action of Britain in resuming the gold standard (see below; also COMMONWEALTH...