Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the absence of the Premier, the Minister of Finance, M. Louis Loucheur, had drawn up a stop-gap financial bill the provisions of which could be justified only by the undoubted fiscal emergency with which France is faced. Of all Frenchmen, M. Briand alone was thought to possess sufficient prestige to jam this bill through the Chamber and Senate. Its provisions : 1) The immediate issue of 7½ billion paper francs by the Bank of France; 6 billions to go to the depleted Treasury, and 1½ billions to supply the needs of commerce...
President Doumergue signed the bill. It became a law. Frenchmen at length calmed down sufficiently to give a thought to the other matters slated by the Briand Cabinet last week for early attention: 1) Immediate ratification of the Locarno Treaties (shelved during the fiscal squabble but certain to pass with acclaim). 2) Resumption of foreign debt negotiations. 3) Syrian and Moroccan affairs to be peaceably adjusted...
...Nations and recently appointed French Civilian High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16) is known in Paris as a man of caution and of peace. Those qualities recommended him highly as a successor to General Maurice Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander to Syria (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week Frenchmen were well pleased as M. de Jouvenel slipped quietly over to London for a conference with British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, preparatory to setting out for Syria...
...Paris 6,000 Frenchmen donned "horizon blue shirts, dark blue collars, navy blue ties, light gray suits and blue-ribboned felt hats." Then, swaggering 6,000 canes, they proceeded to assemble and lay the foundations of "blue-shirted French Fascism...
Last week's political impasse sent the franc tumbling to 25 to the dollar. Frenchmen rushed to convert their francs into stable currencies and stable foreign bonds. "A buying panic" ensued-brokers labored late, smiling...