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...same day that the Senate approved the Italian debt settlement, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced that the American Debt Funding Commission would meet with the French Ambassador, Henry Bérenger, to resume negotiations for settlement of the French debt...
Next morning the meeting was held. It lasted less than 30 minutes. M. Bérenger made a concrete offer and a little speech. Unlike M. Caillaux's debt efforts, there was a minimum of publicity. Not even M. Bérenger's speech was made public. His offer was said to be better than Caillaux's. The American Commission took a few days to consider the proposal, and an aura of hopefulness floated over the White House and Treasury Department...
Meanwhile it was recalled that M. Bérenger is almost better known in France as poet, author and editor than as the man who made reports on "High Explosives," "Modern War Tactics," "The National Safety" and "Our Colonial Armies," during...
...renger's optimistic, slightly "golden rule" philosophy of life was made known when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect...
Incidentally the "intellectual aristocracy" of Paris has long frequented the Salon of Mme. Bérenger, a charming daughter of the distinguished Delzant family...