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...that they really did not know where Chairman Owen D. Young might be. This fact, convenient, frustrated for a time all efforts to confirm the flat statement of M. Poincar?? that Mr. Young would positively sit on the Committee of Experts...
Contrasting with French joy was the raging fury of the German press last week. In Berlin the potent, Democratic Acht Uhr Abendblatt, even thought that Prime Minister Poincar?? of France had "influenced'' Agent General Gilbert to write a "made to order report," and rashly charged that this perfidy had been arranged at the Gilbert-Poincar??-Churchill and J. P. Morgan conference in Paris last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). As German anger mounted, imaginative correspondents cabled the suggestion that if Mr. Gilbert had remained in Berlin, last week, he would have been mobbed. As usual, however, the Agent General had left...
...Maurice Bokanowski. He knows the nimbleness of U. S. telephone girls from personal experience. He gets things done in Herbert Hoover fashion (TIME, March 19). Furthermore funds wherewith to buy new telephone equipment were now becoming available through the sound but dazzling financial wizardry of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar??, the savior of the franc (TIME...
...General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincar??, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet's telephone operator would...
With such left-handed arguments as these, M. Briand championed the peaceful "spirit of Locarno" in words sufficiently warlike for slight mollification of the Poincar??ists. Finally he delivered a peroration in which he quite bluntly demanded co-operation from everyone. As expected, the ensuing vote was little short of a triumph: 413 for; 71 against; and only an odd 100 abstentions...