Word: loucheur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasional help from the Bloc National but must sink or swim with the Left. In that quarter he can of course count on Herriot's Radical-Socialists, since a majority of the new Cabinet are of that ilk. But it is considered significant that several Socialists, notably Louis Loucheur, refused portfolios- which leaves their party free to overthrow the new Cabinet at pleasure...
...Clementel had no alternative but to resign after his painful experience in the Senate. This he promptly did. Premier Herriot allegedly offered the vacant Ministry to M. Louis Loucheur, prominent and influential industrialist, but the latter refused it. The post was next offered to Senator Anatole de Monzie, an ardent Catholic and a prominent henchman of the Government in the recognition negotiations with Russia. The Finance Ministry was accepted by M. de Monzie on the understanding that the Government drop opposition to the Vatican Embassy. The Premier compromised on this question by stating that the Government would permit the representative...
...allowed to leak out that the Government intended to impose a capital levy of 10% in the form of a mortgage under which 1% per annum of the capital sum must be paid. This rumor, for it was nothing more, aroused the political elements to tornadic fury. M. Loucheur instantly withdrew his support from the Premier. This was not so serious as what followed. The Unified Socialists, under ex-Premier Aristide Briand, announced that, unless the Cabinet stuck to its capital levy guns, they would desert the Government ship, which must then founder, for the Unified Socialists, with 104 seats...
Said General Nollett, Minister of War, to the French Chamber of Dep- uties in response to a criticism from Deputy Louis Loucheur that France was no more ready for war than...
...Loucheur's statements are somewhat pessimistic. The new Su-perior Council of National Defense, created by the Herriot Government, is working at top speed in collaboration with all the industries concerned, and is preparing for complete mobilization of all industries in case of an-other conflict...