Word: caillaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Joseph Caillaux, one-time Premier, brilliant financial genius, many times Minister of Finance, convicted for "endangering France's alliances," regarded by many as a traitor, was much upon the tongue of the French public...
PREMIER Poincaré, in replies: "I am not a man who has silently harbored illusions about consular power. M. Herriot mistakes me for another eminent personage [ex-Premier Caillaux] whose shadow creeps timidly around certain political meetings and is not very strongly repulsed by M. Herriot and his party. . . . When the Government's adversaries have the courage to vote publicly against it, the Government will know what it ought...
...proprietor of the cararet for evicting him and against the barman for refusing to serve him with drinks. No sooner had the Prince's suit been filed than Maître Moro Giafferi, most famous of all French lawyers, offered his services to the Prince. Maître Giafferi defended Caillaux, Landru (the French Bluebeard) and Mme. Bessarabe...
Last week the Camelots du Roi (Royalists), emulating Facismo, attacked three socialists with tar, ink, sticks and castor oil. The Socialists are: M. Marc Sangnier, leader of the Socialist Radical Party; M. Marius Moutet, a prominent defender in the Caillaux trial; M. Viollette, formerly Minister of Subsistence. Said M. Sangnier: " They can cover me with tar and force castor oil down my throat, but they can never win me to their methods...
Just what the government will be able to establish is a matter of conjecture for a veil of mystery has surrounded the proceedings up to the time of trial. It is safe to say that M. Caillaux will be ready with a masterly defence for he is not a man to yield without supreme effort and now he is fighting for his life. Let us hope that the French government will be able to lay its finger on some definite action of a man, who, in the mind of everyone, has tried to betray France...