Word: mm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three attaches of the French Treasury-MM. Barnaud, Roussel and Thion de la Chaume-left Paris to represent France in discussions at London of the French War debt to Britain. The commission of three was expected to function at once. Finance Minister Caillaux expected to be in London as soon as he could tear himself away from preparing next year's budget...
...MacDonald had reported that he had made an extract of the liver, injected it in the veins of 33 patients suffering from high blood pressure, succeeded in lowering the pressures of their systolic blood (pressure as the heart contracts on its out-pumping stroke) from an average of 204 mm. to 142 mm. The diastolic (heart expansion or intake stroke) pressures had come down from an average of 114 mm. to 86 mm...
...Cabinet was conspicuous for the inclusion of MM. Briand and Caillaux. The former is moderate and has seven times been Premier of France. His foreign policy is not likely to differ from that pursued by ex-Premier Edouard Herriot who was his own Foreign Minister, except that he is likely to be firmer on all points...
...President next called M. Aristide Briand, seven times Premier, asked him to compose an eighth Cabinet. It was clearly a last effort to stave off a general election that would certainly bring the Nationalists, MM. Millerand and Poincare at their head, crashing back into power. M. Briand also accepted provisionally the President's mandate, departed from the Elysee...
...Liberté, which supports MM. Poincaré and Millerand, said...