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...There are times when it is necessary to speak clearly. Messieurs, the whole fate of French finances rests on your decision." Such was the climax of a great speech in the Chamber of Deputies last week-a speech that came in compact, persuasive phrases from Premier Raymond Poincaré. At 66 and long since a greybeard, he retains in debate the vigor and combative strength of youth. Last week, in his secondary role of Finance Minister, M. Poincaré was defending his latest budget against the tacking on of a ruinously costly amendment to increase the salaries of all civil...
Premier Raymond Poincaré hastily convened the Cabinet which promptly suspended Director Catry of the Prison Sant...
...later in the day, a set of Greek and Latin classics with which he proposes to amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident seemed closed-triumphantly. It was not. Next day the venerable mother of M. Daudet sent an open letter to Premier Raymond Poincaré which was published in L'Action française. The world could not but listen; for this frail old lady is the widow of Alphonse Daudet. Who does not know his works? Who has not read at least one of his Letters from My Mill? It was as though...
...Most Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week...
...Premier Poincaré obtain "better terms" from the U. S.? One obstacle is that the U. S. Debt Funding Commission, having negotiated and signed debt-funding agreements with all nations indebted to the U. S., has officially terminated its existence. If France ever gets better terms from the U. S., she must get them from a new U. S. Commission especially created to give them to her by Congress. The only alternative would be to let the whole matter drop officially, and for the U. S. to accept from France, from time to time, such individual payments...