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TIME New Haven, Conn. The News-Magazine Oct. 16, 1925. Sirs: I read TIME to my grandchildren. TIME, Oct. 12, Page 6, Column 3, reads : "Exclaimed M. Caillaux with weary irony." Of course, I don't know, but is not the satire? pointing Is out not of irony the saying foibles one of thing - people meaning the opposite? He meant exactly what he said. You place yourself with those lower classes who enjoy using sarcasm" when they mean "irony...
...Berenger, also a member of the French debt commission, declared, per contra, that he would support the ratification of M. Caillaux's tentative agreement...
...Caillaux, jaunty debt negotiator, landed at Havre, he twirled his cane in airy greeting to noted Poet-Playwright Maurice Rostand, who was waiting on the pier. Pressed for a statement, he declared: "We parted from the American delegates on the most cordial and sympathetic terms. . . . We shall resume our negotiations in good time." Implored to say something serious he took refuge in the ultimate cliché: "All I can say is that American women are charming...
...Lamoureaux, budget reporter for the Chamber of Deputies, and a member of M. Caillaux's Commission, declared...
Since these two diverse views indicated something like a split in the Caillaux Commission, the dictum of M. Henri Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber, upon the whole matter was marked well. Said he: "It was absurd to send a whole committee to America. One man could have done better. . . . I shall vote against this temporary agreement because it is a mere effort to gain time . . . . Parliament problems which can be put off, and if a five year limit is set on the debt question you can be sure Parliament will take four years...