Word: loucheur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruhr The little seed of peace, given by Herr Hugo Stinnes to Premier Mussolini in Italy nearly a month ago, sown by Mussolini and Jaspar in a subsequent conference at Milan, and watered with assiduous care by M. Loucheur, unofficial diplomat of French industry, and Premier Theunis of Belgium, has at length pushed its first leaves through the earth...
...cold shoulder in the now possible reparations parley. It transpires that this far-seeing statesman was in communication with the Germans, and that he was responsible for sending M. Jaspar, Belgian Foreign Secretary, to Italy to hear the Stinnes proposals. When these were communicated to him he gave Loucheur full support for his mission to England. In this way he was able to bring considerable pressure to bear on Poincaré, who found himself in a quandary owing to the popularity of Loucheur's efforts, in the recent meeting between the two premiers in Paris...
...Loucheur, formerly Minister for the Liberated Regions, went to Lon don to confer with British politicians about the Ruhr, and in spites of tt maze of facts coming from the hos tile section of the Paris press, it appears that M. Loucheur's visit, while not in any way official, was m point of fact made with the cognizance of Premier Poincare...
...Loucheur said, on return: went to England without any official mission. . . . I talked with members of the English Government, some of whom have been my friends for a long time. I saw them and can state that the situation of France is beginning to be better understood by English opinion. I am persuaded that an agreement is possible without sacrificing the legitimate interests ot France." He went to England in opposition to that section of French opinion who favor a peace settlement without Britain. His purpose was to tighten the slackened bonds of the Entente Cordiale, and many Paris papers...
Theorists suggested that M. Loucheur went to London for the purpose of interesting the British Government in his scheme to form a separate Rhine State-and possibly the Saar basin would be included in the scheme-under the protection of the League of Nations. The scheme is an old one, and it seems probable that he did not bring the question up at London...