Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train the weary M. Cai-llaux spoke to reporters. Some one told him of having paused before a window in Washington where pictures of the French Debt mission were displayed and of having heard a woman say: "Oh, how sly they look!" "Ah yes!" exclaimed M. Caillaux, with a weary irony. "The Wizard! It is always the same. All people believe that foreigners would eat them if they could...
...French Attitude. There was high 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...
Next morning the French Mission met the U. S. negotiators in the Treasury Department...
Last week French newspapers received heavier cable reports concerning the progress of M. Caillaux's mission (see Page 6, Cabinet) than have ever before flashed eastward over the wires. Frenchmen, early pleased by the cordiality of Secretary Mellon's greeting to M. Caillaux, became angry, excited and somewhat defiant as the rejection of the initial French debt proposals became known. Phrases flew: "France bloodless, the U. S. stuffed with food . . . refuse to discuss the Mellon memorandum . . . Frenchmen slaves for 62 years ... the feudal U. S. mentality . . . 'virtuous' President Coolidge ... if M. Caillaux must return without...
...arrival of the French financial mission headed by Mr. Caillaux (see Page 6) has been the occasion of renewed anticipations of heavy foreign borrowing this winter, which has been held in check by the debt funding...