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...lover of Britain since Oran and Dakar, but no lover of Germany either and certainly not of Italy; a man who loves only France and who could devise uses for his Fleet which would not be convenient to the Axis. France still had an economy. Last week Finance Minister Yves Bouthillier presented a budget for the first four months of 1941, approximately 40,000,000 francs ($880,000) of which 6,000,000 ($142,000) was for military expenses. The Government had recently taken over all British contracts with industries in unoccupied France, bank deposits were 20% higher than before...
...corporations were restricted to not more than twelve or fewer than three members. The president of a company must be an active participant in its management and president and board are personally liable for all the company's debts. All abuses of the capitalistic system, Finance Minister Marcel Yves Bouthillier said, evolved around the "irresponsibility of the chiefs of the corporations." The new legislation meant no more "monkeying around with other people's money...
Without waiting for the Nazis to depart, France's new Minister of Finance, Marcel Yves Bouthillier, moved his ministry back to Paris and as an optimistic gesture ordered the reopening of the Bourse. "The finances of France must now be handled by improvisation," declared the scholarly, 39-year-old Minister, who has one of the best money minds in France. Neither a Fascist nor a politician, Bouthillier has spent the entire 14 years of his public life in the Finance Ministry, leaves it to attend the opera, to go to bed, or to indulge in his favorite sport-sailing...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
...Yves Mirande, director of many a gay French cinema comedy, had a motoring smashup in Mâcon, France, was treated for his injuries by the Doctors Denis pére et fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy...