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...Ambassador Jusserand called at the White House accompanied by Senator Paul Dupuy of France (owner of Le Petit Parisien and close friend of Premier Poincaré) for an informal discussion of Franco-American relations. Afterwards, M. Jusserand was asked by reporters what M. Dupuy had had to say. The Ambassador, who like the French Senator is a newspaper man, replied with a French proverb: "Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux" (literally, "The wolves do not eat themselves among one another...
...Poincare cabled M. Jusserand, French Ambassador at Washington, that as the U. S. Government had banned discussion of inter-allied debts, France must bar discussion of a reduction of Germany's debt to. her. He also stated that France would accept no negitiations which brought up the question of the occupation of the Ruhr. In his Sunday sermon at Brive he was as intractable as ever and accused the Germans of being " able to pay the cost in Anglo-Saxon countries of frenzied propaganda to inspire the pity of charitably inclined souls...
...Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to Washington: "At a dinner of the Authors' Club in my honor, Oscar S. Straus, former U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, told an anecdote about the late President Roosevelt and me. According to him, I called at the White House one day in cutaway coat, high hat and lavender gloves. The President was about to go for a swim and I accompanied him. On the banks of Rock Creek we undressed, but I kept on the lavender gloves. 'Aren't you going to take them off ? ' asked Mr. Roosevelt. ' No, Monsieur...
...English Government, with its usual deliberation, has done nothing, and probably will do nothing until its legal experts have examined the Supreme Court ruling. The French Government, more impetuous, had Ambassador Jusserand visit the State Department and talk with Secretary Hughes. It, too, will probably make no formal protest until it is evident what the United States actually purposes doing. French, Italian and Spanish law requires that seamen on ships of those nationalities have a daily liquor ration. So there will be a direct clash between the laws of at least three countries and that of the United States. Ambassador...
...Among the other speakers were the French Ambassador, M. Jules Jusserand; the British Ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes; the Belgian Ambassador, Baron de Cartier; and General Lord, Director of the Budget. General Pershing was expected to speak but did not appear...