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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...
...well known that M. Bérenger was opposed from the first to M. Caillaux's program of attempting to deal with Secretary Mellon "in the manner of an actor defying his landlady." Now Ambassador Bérenger, Rapporteur Général du budget au Sénat, is supposed to be coming to present tactfully the books which show France's "capacity to pay," and with the intention of remaining in the U. S. until a settlement is reached based upon a mutual flinging of all cards upon the table...
...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...