Word: indoing
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...announced his intention of not resigning just yet. But politics are politics and something must be done for Sarraut, who has proclaimed his Intention of renouncing Parliamentary life after the next elections. It was reported that M. Sarraut had been offered the post of Governor-General of French Indo-China and of Ambassador at Washington, "both of-which he refused...
...result of a stinging exchange of personal charges through the newspapers, M. Camille Aymard, political director of La Liberté and famed big game hunter, challenged M. Herriot, leader of the Radical bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, to a duel, and sent Ernest Outrey, Deputy for Indo-China, and M. Maspero, ex-Governor of Indo-China, to M. Herriot, as his seconds. They were referred to Deputies Edouard Daladier and Alexandre Varenne, seconds for M. Herriot. The seconds were to meet to decide whether a duel was warranted and, if so, how it was to be fought...
...thus come to have increased significance. China would be the glacis for the next great strategic move in the Far East. On Great Britain's ability to hold Singapore and to dominate the coasts of South China ultimately depends the fate of Hongkong and the Treaty Ports, French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippine Islands and the British possessions in the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand...
...Chamber of Deputies passed the Four Power Pacific Treaty which provides for moral guarantees for maintaining the status quo on the Pacific between the U. S. A., Great Britain, France, Japan. The debate was perfunctory. Regret was expressed that the terms of the treaty did not apply to French Indo-China. Eulogies of President Harding and the U. S. policy were voiced...
...leaving a deficit of $245,259,000. The Senate Committee applied a drastic economy axe to all departmental budgets achieving a cut of $113,400,000. Revenue estimates were raised by $170,100,000 by increased taxation returns, larger contributions from French colonies such as Indo-China and Madagascar, the attachment to the budget of $3,780,000 from the Saar basin coal- mines, and $31,500,000 from French railway companies for the sale of American railway army stock. Accordingly the ordinary budget will show a surplus of $38,241,000, and the French taxpayer receive value...