Word: renger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador to France, Mr. Myron T. Herrick, embraced the new French Ambassador to the U. S., M. Victor Henry Bérenger, as the latter was about to set out from Paris for Washington last week. Mr. Herrick kissed M. Bérenger first on one cheek and then on the other. At Paris this enthusiastic Latin farewell was cheered as evidence of Secretary Mellon's intention to meet M. Bérenger at least half way when he should arrive at Washington and resume negotiations for the settlement of the French debt...
...renger, as everyone knows, was a member of the ill-fated Caillaux debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, 12) which set itself a rigid limit of seven days in which to beat down Secretary Mellon's terms, and departed in dudgeon when "Wizard" Caillaux was unable to do much more than exasperate everybody during that period. He took back to France, as everyone knows, only a stopgap U. S. offer to accept $40,000,000 a year for five years as a full discharge on the interest of the French debt for those years. The Painlevé Cabinet, in which...
Since M. Bérenger will continue as a Senator, he will come to the U. S. on a "temporary appointment" renewable indefinitely every six months. Because M. Caillaux is generally thought in France to have cut his visit much too short for successful negotiation with Secretary Mellon, it is widely rumored that Senator Bérenger comes as a sort of "permanent diplomatic conversationalist" to keep the French debt negotiations amicably simmering until they can be definitely pinned down to a fixed...
...purpose of resuming the negotiations at Washington begun by M. Caillaux that M. Bérenger is leaving for the United States soon as French Ambassador, and we hope that when an accord is reached the French franc will follow the upward course of the Belgian franc and Italian lira...
Raconteurs, dwelling upon the personality of M. Bérenger, recalled that a Washington correspondent once asked the 58-year-old Senator to name his favorite form of sport or exercise. Came the short-clipped answer: "L'escrime, la natation!* Mais, mes distractions sont les voyages, la lecture et la promenade...