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Next morning the meeting was held. It lasted less than 30 minutes. M. Bérenger made a concrete offer and a little speech. Unlike M. Caillaux's debt efforts, there was a minimum of publicity. Not even M. Bérenger's speech was made public. His offer was said to be better than Caillaux's. The American Commission took a few days to consider the proposal, and an aura of hopefulness floated over the White House and Treasury Department...
...Doumer (TIME. March 15); Loucheur (TIME, Dec. 21); Painleve (TIME, Nov. 30); Caillaux (TIME, Nov. 9); De Monzie (TIME, April 20, 1925); Clementel (TIME. April 13, 1925). The three Premiers in whose Cabinets these gentlemen served?Briand, Painleve and Herriot?have each fallen at least once on this same issue...
...Caillaux. Great interest was aroused by the fact that Premier Briand offered the post of Finance Minister to Joseph Caillaux before calling in M. Peret. The temperamental Caillaux declined, saying that he would have to hold the premiership as well in order to put through the drastic reforms which he now deems necessary. He was reported to have declared bitterly that under no circumstances would he enter a Cabinet with War Minister Painleve, who, as Premier, recently booted M. Caillaux (then Finance Minister) into the cold. (TIME...
Since Joseph Caillaux has been everything, from Premier (1911) to an alleged traitor during the War and unsuccessful Debt Commissioner to the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), this refocusing of serious attention upon him was undoubtedly significant of the desperate shortage of real leaders in France...
Until last week M. Malvy was Chairman of the Chamber Committee on Finance. He now resumes the post of Minister of the Interior, which he occupied just before his sensational War trial as an associate of M. Caillaux...