Word: peretous
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Aristide Briand.................Premier & Foreign Raoul Peret............................. Finance Pierre Laval............................ Justice Louis Malvy............................. Interior Lucien Lamoureux........................ Education *Paul Painleve.......................... War *GeorKes Leygues........................ Marine *Anatole de Monzie...................... Public Works *Daniel Vincent......................... Commerce *Jean Durand............................ Agriculture *Antome Durafour........................ Labor *Paul Jourdain.......................... Pensions *Leon Perrier........................... Colonies...
...Raoul Peret. As Premier Briand's third Finance Minister in as many months, M. Peret has fallen heir to the seemingly insoluble fiscal problems of France. His immediate predecessor, Senator Doumer, failed to solve them, although he is one of the greatest fiscal experts in France. His predecessor was, of course, M. Loucheur, "the richest man in France," a great industrialist whose failure was no less complete. Now appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week...
...they applauded this unspectacular but well-advised move, Frenchmen remembered that Finance Minister Peret has served in various Ministries since that of Guerin in 1893. He served as President of the Chamber before the election of M. Herriot to that post. In consequence, he knows quite as well as anyone that in the present emergency the Finance Minister of France must attain his ends by cajoling the Deputies as if they were a pack of obstinate schoolboys...
Caillaux. Great interest was aroused by the fact that Premier Briand offered the post of Finance Minister to Joseph Caillaux before calling in M. Peret. The temperamental Caillaux declined, saying that he would have to hold the premiership as well in order to put through the drastic reforms which he now deems necessary. He was reported to have declared bitterly that under no circumstances would he enter a Cabinet with War Minister Painleve, who, as Premier, recently booted M. Caillaux (then Finance Minister) into the cold. (TIME...
Later, in President Peret's office, M. Magne declared that the insulting word had not been intended for ex-Premier Painlevé, but "as a simple commentary on défaitists [name given to the pacifists during the war] like Bolo, Duval and Almerleda." The insult had been provoked by M. Mandel. This explanation was made public in the Chambre and was accepted...