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Ordered to bed by his doctors he was unable to lead the fight in person. Pudgy André Cheron, France's chin-whiskered Minister of Finance took orders from his chief by telephone, directed the government's defense. In the Chamber of Deputies, three times the Tardieu-Cheron forces beat off the opposition. The deputies prepared to vote on a measure to reduce the income tax for married women. On the rostrum Pudgy Minister Cheron raised his hand...
...steps of the Chamber of Deputies Pudgy M. Cheron explained why he had put the government to a test vote...
Round Three. As the Latins refused to yield to his demands, the little lame Yorkshireman waxed in spleen, finally dived into a clinch. In arguing against Mr. Snowden a whole sheaf of figures had been cited by Finance Minister Henri Cheron, and the Frenchman punched home his point with a citation from the British Balfour Note...
...hope that M. Cheron will not consider me discourteous," flashed Chancellor Snowden. "but I do not accept the accuracy of a single one of his figures. I could refute every construction he has placed on his figures. . . . His interpretation of the Balfour Note is grotesque and ridiculous...
...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...