Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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From this stopgap victory in the Chamber, M. Briand hastened to defend the Locarno Pacts, then up for ratification before the Senate...
...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 M. Caillaux was Finance Minister, fell (TIME, Nov. 9, Dec. 7) and the stopgap offer has not been...