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Round Two, Snowy-bearded, patriarchially irate French Finance Minister Henri Cheron rose to hurl a counter ultimatum: "There can be no thought of making a division of annuities different from that of the Young Plan. Mr. Snowden's proposal is not acceptable...
Finance-Henri Cheron...
Momentous is Prime Minister Pomcaré's decision not to hold the portfolio of Finance himself as heretofore but to entrust it to Senator Henri Cheron, Chairman of the Senate's Finance Committee and Minister of Commerce since the death of Maurice Bokanowski (TIME, Sept. 10). The Prime Minister significantly intimated last week that he will now have time to visit Berlin in connection with the momentous work of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). When asked if he would also visit Washington to seek revision of the French debt, Lion Poincaré growled irritably...
Second in significance only to the Cheron appointment is the promotion of smart, indispensable Andre Tardieu from his previous portfolio of Public Works to the vastly more important Ministry of Interior. Destiny will yet make him Prime Minister of France...
Meanwhile the Senate shoved its continued hostility toward the Cartel by defeating Senator Pasquet (a Cartellist sympathizer) when he was nominated for the post of Reporter to the Senate Finance Committee, and electing instead Senator Cheron, leader of the United Republican group. Senator Millies-Lacroix was elected President of the Commission to succeed his intimate friend, Finance Minister Doumer...