Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distinctly tabbyish is Edouard Herriot, plump and wavy-haired Mayor of Lyons! whose so-called Radical-Socialist Party won the French Chamber of Deputies election (TIME, May 16). Not the least bit radical. M. Herriot's party decided in caucus last week not to join forces with the mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate...
Premier & Minister of Foreign Affairs?Edouard Herriot...
...Deputy Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists who won most seats in the new Chamber of Deputies directly after President Doumer's death, remained coy to all correspondents last week, hinted that he may not try to become Premier when the Chamber reconvenes June 1, may prefer to become a second Aristide Briand, holding the Foreign Ministry and supporting as Premier his good friend Senator Paul Painlevé, a Republican Socialist. That M. Herriot is the power behind the political throne in France was shown when he and President Lebrun jointly received the Corps Diplomatique last week...
...Most striking of all, Edouard Herriot stands for the payment by France of her War debts to the U. S. and Britain even if Germany ceases to pay Reparations to France. Writing last February in his newspaper L'Ere Nouvelle, M. Herriot flatly called it the "plain duty" of France to "fulfill her obligations regardless of the Reparations question...
Together President Lebrun and Premier Tardieu then motored to Paris where M. Tardieu presented his Cabinet's resignation. Since the new Chamber will have a Left Centre majority, President Lebrun seemed bound to call on Edouard Herriot, most potent Left Centrist (see p. 20), to form a Cabinet soon, but meanwhile the President asked Right Centrist Andre Tardieu to carry on pending the assembling of the new Chamber in June...