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...burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined to succeed Right-Centreman Tardieu as Premier of France...
...that led him from the Professorship of Rhetoric at Lyon (1896-1904) to the Mayoralty (1906), which he has held, with one break, ever since, and twice into the office of Premier (1924-25 and 1926, the last time for only two days). To distract themselves other statesmen read. Edouard Herriot (like Winston Churchill) writes. Because he chanced to attend a Beethoven festival, M. Herriot is the author of a life of Beethoven. Because he loves the forests of Normandy he has made a rambling book out of his rambles there. Stimulated by a curiosity to know whether a certain...
...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...
...much, had to let their final speeches be read by leather-lunged henchmen. Premier Tardieu's laryngitis grew so bad that he dared not even venture out to ballot. Thus of the French "Big Three" there remained shouting to the end only that redoubtable Gentile, barrel-chested Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyons and leader of the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies (107 seats out of 610), the misnamed Radical Socialists...