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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...
...President of France, with the Palais de I'Elysee for a home, $144,000 as salary and expense allowance, would be a comfortable, honorable existence, a high climax to a distinguished career, an honor that few Frenchmen would refuse. On the other hand it would mean that Aristide Briand must retire from active politics at the age of 69 (Georges Clemenceau was a potent figure at 88) and at a time when the map of Europe is one great rash of international irritations for which the presence of peace loving Aristide Briand in the French Foreign Office has long been...
...there were only two avowed candidates for President of France: white-whiskered, mildly conservative Paul Doumer, President of the Senate, and Brandy Distiller Jean ("***") Hennessy, candidates of the Opposition parties. M. Doumer was practically sure of the Senate's vote, was fairly sure of election against any one but Briand. As a candidate, *** Hennessy looked hopeless. Anti-Briand strategists talked seriously of drafting plump, smiling President Gaston Doumergue for a second term. "Le bon Gastounet" issued no I-do-not-choose but remained as coyly silent as any Coolidge...
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...
...other words the Briand way to combat Zollverein is to offer Germany and Austria something better, perhaps a general European cartel based largely on wheat. To maintain a balanced exchange of wheat and manufactures throughout Europe, the plan provides for a system of reciprocal tariff rebates between those countries which are buyers of wheat and exporters of manufactured goods and those which are exporters of wheat and importers of manufactured goods...