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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...
...announced that it was the largest massing of police at the Chamber since that memorable day in 1926 when the people of Paris attempted to dunk Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in the Seine. Word had gone round that an attempt was to be made on the life of Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister...
...evening 300 Royalist students marched toward the 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...
...have foreseen, should have prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken in his forecasts as well as his facts." Others accused him of "leading France into another...
...full victory for Br'er Briand. The Chamber voted confidence in the Cabinet...