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Followed a Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill parley. Directly afterward Messrs. Gilbert and Churchill proceeded to the British Embassy for lunch-and their luncheon companion was John Pierpont Morgan.* Not until the cables flashed MORGAN did men of caution and property recognize that the story had really broken. Only then were they sure that final Reparations settlement will now be made, after ten years of piddling with approximations. After luncheon a purring motor car conveyed Chancellor Churchill to the station, where he impetuously entrained for London. Another car carried the Agent General to confer lengthily with Emile Moreau. Governor...
Following the Gilbert-Baldwin-Churchill conference in London, the Agent General returned to Paris, so unobtrusively that even the press did not at first chronicle his coming. After a lengthy conference with French Prime Minister & Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, Mr. Gilbert wired London, with the result that Chancellor Churchill set out for France-encountering very dirty weather on the Channel-and arrived upon the doorstep of the British Embassy in Paris...
...International Financial Commission, which will reopen the Reparations Question. A leading point at issue between the tycoons was ascertained to be whether the experts attached to the Commission shall be private financiers or governmental treasury experts. Agent Gilbert was understood to have urged the former, and Prime Minister Poincaré the latter. No decision was taken...
...furious oratorical flank attacks seriously embarrassed the Generalissimo of the Budget, keen, masterful Raymond Poincaré, Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and famed as the man who saved the franc two years ago from utter collapse (TIME...
Less easily disposed of by M. Poincaré was an issue adroitly concocted by Socialists and Radicals. They pounced upon a budgetary bill which would permit the Government at its discretion to restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with...