Word: caillaux
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...Vilem Pospisil may pat himself on the chest. In three days in Washington he funded the debt of his country, Czecho-Slovakia. (Joseph Caillaux spent more than a week in Washington, but failed to reach a permanent debt-funding agreement between France...
...answers seemed to be: 1) France's prestige will certainly suffer. 2) If a vote of the French people were taken, they would unhesitatingly repudiate the Caillaux agreement; but M. Caillaux has a 50-50 chance of securing its ratification in the Chamber...
Developments in the Press were naturally lass capable of being accurately evaluated, but reflected a general tone of condemnation for Mr. Mellon and sympathy for M. Caillaux. The French temperament exploded into many lurid headlines and wild words, such as: "France, with a knife at her throat is being offered up to a God more detestable than the God of War!" But two questions were asked everywhere that summed up the tenor of thinking Frenchmen's worries: 1) How can France keep up her prestige in Europe for another five years, without knowing what her total obligations will eventually...
That some stormy scenes are to be expected, may be judged from a statement by Deputy Louis Marin: "M. Caillaux's failure is the best thing that could have happened to us. I think he must have sought it himself when he saw he was rushing into an inextricable situation. The Government undoubtedly and the Parliament certainly will reject the proposals he is bringing...
tLike "Tiger" Clemenceau and Caillaux, Marshal Lyautey is the living embodiment of the relentlessly active proconsuls of Roman times. He is never still. Rising at 6:30, it is his custom to work restlessly through a long day, conferring with his subordinates even at dinner, making plans late in the evening. His friends wonder if he will "break" with the sudden lifting of the pressure of affairs...