FRANCE: In Paris

Last week French newspapers received heavier cable reports concerning the progress of M. Caillaux's mission (see Page 6, Cabinet) than have ever before flashed eastward over the wires. Frenchmen, early pleased by the cordiality of Secretary Mellon's greeting to M. Caillaux, became angry, excited and somewhat defiant as the rejection of the initial French debt proposals became known. Phrases flew: "France bloodless, the U. S. stuffed with food . . . refuse to discuss the Mellon memorandum . . . Frenchmen slaves for 62 years ... the feudal U. S. mentality ....

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