Word: caillaux
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...London the French delegation was expected to return, headed by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux. At Paris, it seemed likely that France would try to reach an agreement with the U. S. before re-tackling the British debt...
Three attaches of the French Treasury-MM. Barnaud, Roussel and Thion de la Chaume-left Paris to represent France in discussions at London of the French War debt to Britain. The commission of three was expected to function at once. Finance Minister Caillaux expected to be in London as soon as he could tear himself away from preparing next year's budget...
...triumph of the new Senator was not unclouded; for shortly after the election he was informed that Mme. Caillaux, slayer* of Editor Calmette in 1914, had been severely hurt (dislocated hip and broken kneecap) when her automobile skidded into a tree on the way from Mamers, where the Caillaux estates are situate, to Le Mans, capital of the Department of Sarthe. Her first words on recovering consciousness were : "Was Joseph elected?" Apprised of the result, she uttered a cry of joy and was whisked off to a hospital, where an operation was performed. Senator-elect Caillaux rushed to his wife...
...significance of the election of M. Caillaux, who is not a Deputy, is that, with the fall of the Painlevé Ministry, he will not be obliged to retire from politics, as his enemies had hoped...
...Caillaux shot M. Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, in his office for attacking her husband in his newspaper. Despite the fact that premeditated murder seemed established, the court before which she was tried acquitted her on the grounds that Calmette would not have died had he received proper medical attention...