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Premier Briand and his Finance Minister were emboldened by these favorable omens. They were given the courage of desperation by the unabated fall of the franc...
...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...Government to demand authority from Parliament to act by decree and to conduct in secret its operations to resuscitate the franc. (It touched a new low-for-all-time last week-39.01 to the dollar...
Trois. Funds for manipulation in stabilizing the franc to be drawn from: 1) An elaborate revision of French taxes calculated to produce three billion francs of new revenue. 2) Negotiation of international credit...
...their feet and hurled diverse protests. Amid wild confusion M. Leon Blum, fiery Socialist, bitter foe of Finance Minister Caillaux and Premier Briand, poured forth a tirade in which he tore M. Caillaux's proposals to tatters, pleaded for a direct levy on capital to save the franc and pay all debts, hurled awful warnings of "enslavement by foreign credits...