Word: caillaux
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...Ministers have served under me with whom I could do nothing; one is Briand, the other Caillaux. One thinks he is Christ, and the other thinks himself Napoleon." Thus wrote not long ago the "Tiger of France," M. Georges Clemenceau...
...Caillaux, most irrepressible of political Napoleons, joined with that hardy perennial statesman, M. Briand, last week, in the formation of one of the most curious Cabinets yet vouchsafed to France. Briand, as Premier and Foreign Minister, assumed the nominal generalship and resumed his long standing control of the Foreign Office. Caillaux, in the especially-created role of Vice Premier and Minister of Finance, took upon himself the fiscal rehabilitation of France-a task at which he failed notoriously, as Finance Minister under M. Painlevé(TIME, Nov. 9). The New Cabinet...
Victor Henry Berenger did what he was sent to do?make a debt funding agreement between his country and the U.S. He did what Caillaux failed to do last year. But it remains to be seen during the next few weeks whether he has pleased in performance...
...years and advancing gradually to $125,000,000 in the 17th year, and continuing at that level to the end of the usual 62-year period for paying War debts. No "safeguard"; clause (exempting France from payments in case Germany fails in reparations payments), such as was demanded by Caillaux, was mentioned. The total payments in 62 years are to amount to $6,847,000,000 in principal and interest. The interest is calculated as none for five years, 1% for the next ten years and so on up to 3½% for the last 22 years?which signifies nothing, since...
...Doumer (TiME, March 15) ; Loucheur (TIME, Dec. 28) ; Painleve and Bonnet (the latter served as "Budget Minister," an office created to deal with this one problem) (TIME, Nov. 30) ; Caillaux (TIME...