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FATHER OF PACTS.
WILL HE BE NEXT PRESIDENT OF FRANCE?
CURIOUS DEARTH OF CANDIDATES FOR THE ELYSEE.
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M. Aristide Briand, peace-maker even accept a mandate to the The election takes place on May 13, next year, and the winner must find more than 400 supporters among the Parliamentarians.
of Europe, may be the dark-horse Chamber or Senate. He hopes to candidate for the Presidency of travel to make up for the seven France, at the election in May, years of isolation, almost as severe 1931, in spite of his own opposition. as in a monastery. Election to the Presidency is an henour, but it carries with it passage into political oblivion and M. Briand feels that he is not get ready for eclipse.
The day is now just a year away when, in accordance with France's constitution, the Chamber of Do-
With the two former presidents out of the way, the path is open to M. Briand, but there is more
Press Forecasta.
Marcel Hutin, writing at some length in PEcho de Parin, gives it as his sober judgement that there glory in appearing as Foreign will be so many candidates that the Minister of France at Geneva, Lon- Houses of Parliament will turn in don and other capitals of Europe, desperation to the hardy saviour of than in pressing electric buttons Lorraine, Raymond Poincare, but it is his no less sober judgment to inaugurate cheese fairs from the
that the war-time President, who is
puties and Senate will be trans-Elysée. ferred to the palace of former For the same reason, Premier about to celebrate fifty years before kings at Versailles for a day, there Andre Tardieu will not even think the bar of Paris, will refuse under to select an occupant for the pre-of running for the office. His poli- any and all circumstances.
sidential palace, the Elysée, for the
next seven yarı.
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tical star is still rising and he has many other ambitions than to cut himself off from the political world for seven years
3. Gaston Doumergue, affable Southerner, is not a candidate to succeed himself. He feels that seven
That leaves but few candidates. years of political isolation
Are The incumbent must come from the enough. Likewise, the former Pre-left, for, parliamentarily speaking,. sident and many times Fremier France is at present a "left" coun- Raymond Poincare has let it betry, M. Edouard Herriot is said kapwa that under no consideration by many to be willing to accept his
will he be a candidate. -
Thus, with the election only, rear away, there is not a single candidate on the board; no hage party funds, no campaign managers, no red fire and not even campaign posters or election cards. The Pre- sidential election in France is some- thing like a surprise party, with no candidates but lots of hopefuls.
M. Donmargue to Retire.
retreat, but he has told others that he has travel ambitions, wanting particularly to visit South America and Japan.
The two legislative Presidents, Paul Doummer in the Senate and Fernand Bouisson, in the Chamber,
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Nor does M. Hutin feel that M. Doumergue will consider re-election, although he has made a fairly popular President. It is known that the bachelor chief of state pre- fers to retire to a chateau and spend the rest of his life in contemplc- tion.
Among others mentioned, the Presidents ofthe two Chambers, M. Doumer of the Senate and Fernand Bouisson of the Chamber of Deputies, stand out. In the Senate itself such men as Lebrun, the Vice-President; Clementel, Chair- man of the Finance Commission; Raoul Peret, and Henry Cheron, formerly Finance Minister, are re- garded formidable.
But the president need not be are likely possibilities. So are M.chosen from the Senate, asual-as Henry Cheron, former Minister of this proceedure is, and if he is Finance, a 240-pound Normandy chosen from the lower house, might farmer; Raoul Peret, fashion-plate it not well be Aristide Briand, the
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To-day. (June 10.)
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