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...Paris, concern over the expense of conducting the war was manifest in official and business circles. It is now six weeks since the conflict began; and, judging from the appropriations asked by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux (100,000,000 francs, covering a period of three months), there is no immediate prospect of defeating the Riff rebels. Meantime, the franc depreciates in value and finance reforms daily become more difficult...
France. Foreign Minister Briand, appointed to consider the debt question with Finance Minister Caillaux, in the French Senate rose and declared: "I cannot think that so great, generous-hearted and loyal a country ever would do us the affront to believe we seek to escape payment of our debts. . . ." In response to the question, he declared that "serious conversations" had been begun with the U. S. to that...
...cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with Finance Minister Caillaux of France, had told newspapermen France could not pay quickly. Or was the offender some unnamed great one who was rumored to have gone to Europe to work out, unofficially, some debt-funding plan? Whoever and whatever it may have been, the Administration, through "one of President Coolidge...
Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux appeared, one bright morning last week, before the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. To the gentlemen present he said that the "balanced" budget devised by his predecessor M. Clementel was in reality short on the credit side some three and a half billion francs. It appeared that M. Clementel was banking on receipts from Germany which had not been received-a favorite French practice-and had neglected altogether a mere matter on the debit side of some...
...Caillaux made it clear that the budget, which he had revised, would balance without recourse to expectations. He proposed to raise some four billions of francs...