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...twelve richest men in Europe is Belgium's picturesque, choleric Emile Francqui. Like the late great Cecil Rhodes, he found his fortune and lost his temper beneath the blazing sun of Africa-Belgian Congo. Three years ago, as Finance Minister, he won world fame by ''saving'' (stabilizing) the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). For the past month he has represented Belgium on the Second Dawes Committee which is striving at Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Last week a news leak from the secret Committee sessions revealed that...
...parade your ignorance, Messieurs!" said M. Francqui, irate. "Even as a Minister of the Belgian Crown I have never accepted a centime for service to my country...
When Dr. Schacht proceeded to dwell again, last week, on the palpable iniquity of expecting Germany to pay Reparations for 62 years, the five fingers of Croesus Francqui's right hand were observed to tap impatiently on the Committee table. As the Governor paused for breath the Belgian leaped up, fire in eyes...
...country," cried Belgium's Francqui, "is still paying ?3,000 a year to the descendants of the English Duke of Wellington. That is part of the price of our freedom after Waterloo. The agreement was made 15 years later, in 1830. We have paid ?297,000 ($1,443,420) in 99 years, and we still pay, without grumbling...
...very soon appeared that this informal group was the inner banking circle of the committee-for with Mr. Morgan and Lord Revelstoke sit Dr. Carl Melchior, partner in Germany's great house of Warburg, Belgian Tycoon Emile Francqui, and Economist Antonio Suvitch, personal representative of Benito Mussolini...