Word: poincare
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...Marx Cabinet decided to make overtures to the French Government in a final effort to extricate the country from its terrifying financial and economic situation. Dr. von Hoesch, German Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, delivered a note to Premier Poincaré of France asking for the institution of direct negotiations between the two countries on the Ruhr and Rhineland territories...
...Poincaré replied that there was now no objection to negotiating directly with the German Government, but that there could be no discussion of any subject which directly or indirectly implied revision of the Treaty of Versailles. As regards the Ruhr...
...Ambassador Jusserand called at the White House accompanied by Senator Paul Dupuy of France (owner of Le Petit Parisien and close friend of Premier Poincaré) for an informal discussion of Franco-American relations. Afterwards, M. Jusserand was asked by reporters what M. Dupuy had had to say. The Ambassador, who like the French Senator is a newspaper man, replied with a French proverb: "Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux" (literally, "The wolves do not eat themselves among one another...
...points M. Poincaré's speech was almost defiant in tone. Said he: "If tomorrow we have to defend our security, we will not have to wait the good pleasure of any one. . . . Our security is above all assured by consolidation of the territories which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition...
...projected conference of experts to examine Germany's capacity to pay reparations (TIME, Nov. 19) definitely "fell through." Premier Poincaré suggested another conference to consider the question of how Germany can pay, but this was unacceptable to the other Allied Powers and to the U. S. Sir John Bradbury, British representative on the Reparations Commission, thought it was like "prescribing a pill to cure an earthquake...