# Change of chairman of the Reparations Commission

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/change-chairman-reparations-commission/
- Published: 1924-06-21T19:10:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T01:37:51+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/zmiena-starshyni-reparacyjnaj-kamisii.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/smena-predsedatelya-reparatsionnoy-komissii.md

> The new French government has appointed Loucheur chairman of the Reparations Commission in place of Barthou. The author recalls how Loucheur was once pushed aside from his work after the murder of Rathenau.

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The new government has appointed M. Loucheur chairman of the Reparations Commission in place of M. Barthou. He is the same French minister who, together with the German minister Rathenau, almost achieved a peaceful understanding without any occupation… But then German nationalists murdered Rathenau, and the French ones pushed Loucheur aside from his work…