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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hesitation. An official nomination from all the Left parties was Br'er Briand's for the asking, but with only four days before the presidential election, he suddenly turned coy. To a delegation of Deputies he rumbled in his mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Into the Stretch | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

While the President of the Chamber jangled his big brass dinner bell for order, Aristide Briand climbed into the rostrum to reply. Scarcely glancing at the red leather portfolio of notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire career as Foreign Minister, he claimed full support for all his acts from the two most potent French politicians, Raymond Poincaré and Andre Tardieu. He ended with a burst of brilliant Briandism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Into the Stretch | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Chamber shouting "Death to Briand." They were quickly dispersed. The real attack came inside the Chamber, not outside, and it was not aimed at M. Briand's life. Hour by hour, as the day approached when the National Assembly must choose a new President of France, gruff, sleepy-eyed Br'er Briand loomed larger & larger as leading candidate. His enemies selected a shock squadron of eight orators under Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon to blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Into the Stretch | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...full victory for Br'er Briand. The Chamber voted confidence in the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Into the Stretch | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

After communing with himself over night, Br'er Briand finally cast his die, accepted the nomination. At the same time he announced that whatever his status next week, whether he is president-elect of France or not, he would take train once more to sit in his accustomed seat on the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. And he delivered a telling blast at the critics who blamed him for doing nothing to stop the Austro-German Zollverein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Into the Stretch | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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