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Though Premier Edouard Herriot fought a brilliant Chamber battle, urging payment on grounds of expediency & honor, he revealed his personal feelings in these words which drew loudest Chamber cheers: "It was the intervention of President Hoover which destroyed everything and reopened everything! The Hoover Moratorium cost France far more than the sum we are discussing now. It cost us our title to Reparations...
...Guillotined at Dawn." Connoisseurs of oratory agreed that not since the death of 'cello-voiced Aristide Briand has Europe heard a speech so eloquent and witty, so persuasive and pathetic as Edouard Herriot loosed upon the French Chamber between 2:30 a. m. and the hour when he jestingly said, "My Government was guillotined at dawn...
...four days after his fall, Edouard Herriot blocked formation of a new Cabinet by stanchly insisting that France must pay. Urged by President Lebrun to resume the Premiership, M. Herriot declined the (for him) plainly impossible task of persuading the Chamber to reverse its vote. He thought that some other man might succeed. The President picked Former Premier Camille Chautemps, Minister of Interior in the fallen Herriot Cabinet...
...Lawyers- Britain's conscientious James Ramsay MacDonald and liberal, pacific Premier Edouard Herriot of France were too harassed about debts & disarmament to say a word to the League Assembly last week, did honor its opening session by their presence but left before the appeals to conscience began...
Last week bustling Premier Edouard Herriot called on the 72-year-old invalid, told him that he need not write for the rest of his life, that he will receive a pension of 200,000 francs ($8,000) per year...