Word: rets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agents of the efficient Sûreté Generate (French Secret Service) ferreted out, last week, a series of amazing frauds, perpetrated by smart French and German merchants to swindle their governments in connection with the "payment in kind" of German Reparations...
...Commander, U. S. N. Ret. Fairfax...
...franc slumped to 37 to the dollar. The cost of living was announced as having risen 10% in France within two months. Finance Minister Péret, disheartened at his failure to peg the franc, resigned. Deputies of the Right, theoretically foes of Briand, paradoxically continued to support his Left Cabinet lest the franc collapse. Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could...
Worried Frenchmen grew panicky as Finance Minister Péret offered to resign, since even his use of the long-boarded Morgan loan (TIME, May 31) had failed to stabilize the franc. President Doumergue and Premier Briand conferred, decided that M. Péret must continue his efforts...
...Deputies continued obdurate in their opposition to the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), though M. Péret declared publicly: "The American Government will not permit a French loan in New York until the question of debts is settled...