Word: loucheur
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...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...
...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...
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...