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¶A sub-committee appointed by Count von Schlieben, Minister of Finance, to inquire into the situation created by the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, reported to the Reichstag Budget Committee that, unless receipts were maintained and expenses reduced, a financial crisis of the first order was inescapable.
"The greatest part of the unchanging Harvard spirit," said President Eliot in conclusion, "is the willingness to listen to all sides of a question. But when a crisis arises, we all go pretty nearly together on the main points."
President Gaston Doumergue did not, contrary to expectation, invite M. Briand to take another shot at Ministry-making; instead, he called for the second time upon ex-Premier Paul Painleve who, during the crisis, had been botanizing in the Bois de Boulogne, who subsequently succeeded in forming a Cabinet:
The Cabinet crisis continued, Premier Theunis retaining power ad interim; but the King was hourly expected to call upon a prominent Catholic to form a Socialist-Catholic coalition which, if possible, would command the huge majority of 127 in the Chamber and 107 in the Senate.
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack...