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...Premier Poincaré, the great War President of France, one of the whitest whiskered of European statesmen, discovered last week that in the secret code of the French Foreign Office he is referred to as Barbichon (meaning, in boudoir "conversation, "The Little Bearded One" or "Little Whiskers...
...Premier Poincaré, shrewd psychologist, able politician, has been putting off until the last possible moment the autumn session of the Chamber of Deputies and has thus gained time in which to proceed unhindered with his franc-saving program which has raised the franc from 40 to the dollar to 30 to the dollar, since the Chamber rose (TIME...
Last week, with only 39 days in which to vote the budget for next year, Premier Poincaré convoked the Chamber and demanded that the 58 interpolations on the calender be postponed. Twenty-four of the 58 would-be interpolaters took advantage of the rule allowing them five minutes to explain what they wanted to talk about. Deputy Vaillant Couturier (Communist) screamed: "Mussolini is an assassin!" Calm, Premier Poincaré avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When...
Triumph. M. Poincaré won cloture by the smashing vote of 365 to 207. That meant that the budget would go through. The Chamber which last spring cut down Cabinet after Cabinet in an orgy of political double crossing has at last come definitely to its senses. The Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré (TIME, Aug. 9) has achieved what was possible to no single faction. A period of uneventful balloting upon the hundreds of clauses in the budget loomed. As an urgent prelude there were introduced before the Chamber last week War Minister Painlevé's "economy...
...Premier Poincaré journeyed last week to Alsace-Lorraine, the "lost provinces" which his militant patriotism did so much to regain for France. Entering many a schoolroom he sat down quietly beside the teacher, listened while children cradled in German struggled to recite in French. M. Poincaré then requested the children to recite in German and noted carefully the difference in their proficiency. Said he, at Metz: "The children grow each year more proficient in our beautiful tongue. The difference since my last visit two years ago is most marked...