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...Scot MacDonald's excitement was due, of course, to his realization of the effect which the Havas dispatch would and did quickly produce on President Hoover and U. S. public opinion. Havas retracted not one word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee...
...great moment when the rich and moving voice of Scot MacDonald solemnly proclaimed: "We have reached, I believe, the best conclusion that could be reached for world peace, especially for European peace...
Still wracked by a terrible headache Scot MacDonald was unable to write or dictate his final speech as Chairman of the Lausanne Conference. At the last moment he rose from bed, signed for Great Britain and declared ex tempore, "Our agreements must have response elsewhere. [They] must be placed within a world framework...
London throngs cheered returning Scot MacDonald who went first to his oculist, second to Buckingham Palace for an audience of 70 minutes. Premier Herriot declared emphatically on reaching Paris: "In case the United States does not agree to debt reduction, France will remain in her previous position. That means that the entire reparations problem would have to be gone over again. That was the extent of our engagement at Lausanne...
Under orders from Berlin, Chancellor von Papen presently called on Scot MacDonald in Lausanne. He demanded that the MacDonald-Herriot formula, if signed, should become binding immediately upon its ratification by a majority of the signatory powers. In other words France must not be permitted to keep everything in suspense until after the U. S. elections by delaying her ratification. Secondly the Chancellor declared that the German bond issue could not be for more than two billion marks, half what the Allies demanded and 1/57 of what Germany agreed to under the Young Plan. Finally von Papen demanded the writing...