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...Deputies in an extremity of panic, the 65-year-old "Lion of Lorraine" was again called to form a government. It is astounding history that as his own Finance Minister, Prime Minister Raymond Poincar?? restored the shaken credit of the French Treasury within six months, recouped the fall of the franc, finally stabilized it on a gold basis of $1 = 25.52 francs...
Idle would be any suggestion that Great Man Raymond Poincar?? has not made great mistakes, but his constructive achievements have been so great that history will excuse even his colossal blunder of trying to squeeze reparations out of Germany by sending French troops to occupy the Ruhr (TIME, March...
...Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, last week, he had himself held that office on previous occasions eleven times. He was now to make it twelve times?for last week party leaders of the numerous chamber factions agreed, almost unanimously, that no one could fill the political void created by M. Poincar?? except M. Briand...
Twelve thousand replies were received; when the ballots were counted the name of white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincar?? led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...
...ally" of France, and the statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincar?? recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home and sprang his coup royal, with the aid of Jugoslavia's secret military organization, "The White Hand," and its somewhat sinister leader, General Petar Zivkovitch...