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...British Foreign Secretary, is a Scotsman who stands by his friends. Only he of all the 20 Foreign Ministers gathered at Geneva last week went down to the station to meet Aristide Briand, just defeated in the election for President of France (see p. 23). Warmly Uncle Arthur and Br'er Briand clasped hands. Nobody knew then whether the Frenchman was still Foreign Minister or just Citizen Briand. His resignation was in the hands of Prime Minister Pierre Laval of France, but the Cabinet had issued an evasive communiqué suggesting that it might be withdrawn. Briand himself...
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...
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...
...full victory for Br'er Briand. The Chamber voted confidence in the Cabinet...
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...