Unfortunately for M. Briand the Agreements under the Young Plan
have been delayed. The Committees at The Hague are still working them out. If he had been able to present them to the Chamber on Tuesday he would not have been defeated, for the Radicals would have been bound to welcome them. In the circumstances, however, the Radicals, no doubt feeling that they were not risking the Young Plan, indulged their ancient spite against M. Briand, or their exalted conception of their own importance—whichever way one cares to put it. M. Briand asked for a vote of confidence, and was met with a counter-proposal that there should be a debate on the Young Plan in about three weeks. In form the dispute was over nothing more significant than the procedure for the session. M. Briand explained that he would submit the Hague Agreements to the Chamber as soon as they were ready,. but that he could not possibly let them be debated until the deputies had the text before them.
