Word: houtart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote: "The words used . . . are not in the English language in any way offensive. . . . I did not know...
...definite total sum. This last point was strongly urged by Agent Gilbert in his most recent report (TIME, Dec. 26), and, last week, he discussed it thoroughly not. only with M. Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian Finance Minister Baron Maurice Houtart. At present the total "legal liability" of Germany to the allies stands fixed at 132 billion gold marks by the so-called "London Ultimatum" of 1921; but no one dreams that so huge a sum will ever be paid in full and the Dawes Plan functions ad interim to limit the sums...
King Albert asked Baron Houtart, Catholic Deputy for Tournai, to form a new cabinet. He refused, saying that only M. Theunis was suited to the office under the present circumstances...
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