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...Baches Payeront!" was the slogan with which Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (1917-20) justified every expense or extravagance in carrying on the War; and ever since Frenchmen have been putting off their own debt settlements with: ''The Bodies will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germany Can Pay! | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is?in political jargon?the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most American of Frenchmen," brilliant, egotistical, dynamic, and holding the portfolio of Minister of Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dauphin into Premier? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Naturally the "Most American of Frenchmen" kept as mum about his plans, last week, as did a typical U. S. tycoon. (See INTERNATIONAL.) Interviewed, he admitted only that during the holidays he had kept up his golf.? To questions about "The Program of Realization" he curtly and characteristically replied, without attempting humor or evasion, "Rien, maintenant, messieurs!" (Nothing to say, at present, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dauphin into Premier? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus far a stubborn French Parliament has refused to ratify-and the standing $400,000,000 bill is another reason why Frenchmen are unsympathetic toward Signer Klotz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Clemenceau's Klotz | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...American Methods!" Such was the glamorous slogan wherewith Swindleress Hanau dazzled and duped tight-fisted rural Frenchmen and took away their francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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