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With Parliament due to assemble on or about Oct. 24, Premier Poincaré announced last week a new formula under which he hopes to get the Franco-U. S. debt pact past the ever recalcitrant Chamber of Deputies...
...Poincaré declared that he is drafting a series of "provisos" to be attached to the ratification. These "provisos" would not have the force of "reservations" but would record for posterity the reluctance of France to sign the pact as it stands. Thus an honorable loophole would be left open through which France might later request easier terms, while technically bound by the letter of her ratification...
...Raymond Poincaré has been called the greatest of French militarists. There are those who have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
There was but one way in which the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury could blast rumors that he had come to Paris to talk debts with MM. Briand and Poincaré last week-he could call on them for so short a time that no discussion of anything would be possible. He did. With Premier Poincaré he chatted affably lor 16 minutes. Nine minutes sufficed for his call on Foreign Minister Briand. Parisian editors were vexed...
Charles Evans Hughes: "I called on Premier Poincaré last week and emerged just as Secretary Mellon entered his antechamber. Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit. Frenchmen who avoid walking whenever possible, were intrigued, the more so as my age is 64 and Mr. Mellon...