Word: loucheur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Poincaré was the center of last week's French political thought. It was said that his position is now insecure and that his downfall may take place at any moment. The various candidates suggested to succeed him were ex-Premier Clemenceau, M. Louis Loucheur (former Minister of the Liberated Regions), M. Herriot (Mayor of Lyons and Leader of the Radical Socialist Party), M. Louis Barthou (head of the Reparations Commission) who was considered the most likely to be chosen as a "compromise selection...
Those present at the meeting: France, Louis Loucheur, ex-Minister for the Liberated Regions and a leading French financier; U. S. A., David Franklin Houston, Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Administration and now President of the Bell Telephone Securities Co.; Herman Harjes, head of the Morgan Bank in Paris; Nelson D. Jay and Nelson Perkins, bankers...
...Wiesbaden, October, 1921: Agreement made between Rathenau and Loucheur concerning payment of reparation in kind...
...however, that insidious plans were on foot to upset the Poincaré Ministry on the Ruhr issue. One plan had in view a rapprochement with Britain, the creation of a separate Rhineland state, immediate negotiation with the Germans and the formation of an industrial ministry under the leadership of Loucheur. Poincaré was too strong. It was felt that an attack on his Ruhr policy would be tantamount to admitting the weakness of France. The scheme was dropped. Another plan is on foot, however, to force the Premier to resign on the Near Eastern question; but Poincaré is proving...
Meanwhile it is certain that the French policy toward the Germans has been definitely modified. The Poincaré administration has gained and not lost prestige as a result of its more moderate attitude. In Paris it is officially admitted that the Mussolini-Jaspar-Stinnes negotiations in Italy and the Loucheur visit to Britain have had a far-reaching effect on French policy...