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...Paris, Premier Painlevé was inclined to listen sympathetically to the rumors of peace which reached him; for Marshal Pétain had told him that victory in Morocco was impossible in less than six months. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand was also pleased at the prospects peaceful; for, with many international problems on his mind, the war in Morocco was an intolerable strain upon him. Finance Minister Joseph Chalaux, last of the triumvirate ruling France, was more relieved than anybody, for every centime spent in Morocco makes balancing his next budget more difficult...
...budget, passed by the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, July 13), was also passed by the Senate. Parliament then adjourned for the summer recess, and for the months the Painlevè Cabinet will have a free hand in the governing of France...
Chamber: ¶Premier Paul Painlevé introduced...
Circumstances forced Premier Painlevé to go before the Chamber of Deputies to ask for a new war credit. "How much do you need?" jeered the Communists. The Government asked for and obtained 183,000,000 francs ($9,150,000) by a vote of 411 to 29, the Socialists abstaining and the Communists alone forming the opposition...
...significance of the election of M. Caillaux, who is not a Deputy, is that, with the fall of the Painlevé Ministry, he will not be obliged to retire from politics, as his enemies had hoped...