Word: matin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Henry de Jouvenel, able editor-in-chief of Le Matin, one time French delegate to the League of Nations and recently appointed French Civilian High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16) is known in Paris as a man of caution and of peace. Those qualities recommended him highly as a successor to General Maurice Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander to Syria (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week Frenchmen were well pleased as M. de Jouvenel slipped quietly over to London for a conference with British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, preparatory to setting out for Syria...
...Jouvenal, who is Editor-in-Chief of Le Matin, accepted the decidedly thankless post with some hesitation and only after it had been found almost impossible to discover an able civilian statesman who was willing to risk his reputation in Syria. Because he is a civilian, he will be "High Commissioner" rather than "High Com-mander...
...hope in the French Mission as it came to negotiate for settlement of the French War Debt to the U. S.?high hope of a low settlement. The Mission of course said little except "Hope." But it was accompanied by two journalists ? Stephane Lauzanne, Editor of Le Matin, and Pertinax, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris... Those two gentlemen were voluble in their protestations. They exhibited an entire unwillingness to believe that the U. S. demand for payment in full on something like the terms to Great Britain was serious. Mr. Lauzanne went...
...spelling used by TIME is in accordance with the established practice of U. S. papers generally, and with that of the London Times, the Paris Matin. The Moscow Isvestia, irrepressible sheetlet, jumbles the name into one hyphenated word, Abdol-Krem...
...French and the Germans have not been able to agree and, in the opinion of the experts, they are not likely to agree for some time. Their disagreement led to prophesies of a tariff war between the two countries. Le Matin, Paris journal, summed up the situation by stating that "once more the peace of Europe is becoming uncertain. It may be a bloodless war, but economic war is none the less terrible...