Word: loucheur
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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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...
...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...