Word: loucheur
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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...
...question over which the whole of France is split, matters became graver when the Commission on Foreign Affairs protested because it had not been consulted by the Chamber's Finance Commission about the suppression of credits for the Embassy at the Vatican. On the advice of M. Louis Loucheur, who favors France maintaining diplomatic relations with the Pope, the commission decided to close discussion, preferring to wait until the question should come before the Chamber when everybody would express himself publicly on his own responsibility...
...heads of political wiseacres were wagging over the approaching doom of Premier Herriot and the probable accession to the premiership of ex-Premier Aristide Briand, or the possible advent to that dignity of industrialist Louis Loucheur...
...Doctor Loucheur (Minister of Commerce) announced, when his patient suffered a slight relapse after this effort, that he expected to keep the franc about 16 to the dollar...