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...notion that the U. S. President had neglected to conduct any preliminary discussions with her. Time and again, Ambassador Edge's motor hummed through the Place de l'Alma, across the Seine at Pont Alexander III and back to the Foreign Office, where he assured Premier Pierre Laval over and over that the U. S. had not discussed its plan with any other country. M. Laval nodded his head politely, incredulously What about that letter from Old Paul von Hindenburg? What about Mellon being all this time in England...
...have lived for the past four years. Last week, only four days before President-Elect Doumer's inaugural, he resigned as President of the Senate (which elected as its new President Senator Albert Lebrun). As the horses stamped and swished their tails in the courtyard last week, Premier Pierre Laval arrived. He and President-Elect Doumer then motored slowly (so that the Garde Républicaine could keep up) to the Palace of the Elys?...
...Elysée as the Garde Répitblicaine clattered up last week, MM. Doumer and Laval alighted, there waited impatiently Bridegroom Doumergue. He was not going to stay for the whole ceremony, had given fair warning that he would make the next train for Toulouse...
Back to the Elysée drove President Doumer to receive the resignation of Premier Laval and his Cabinet. As custom decrees M. Doumer asked M. Laval to form on the spot a ''new'' Cabinet exactly like the old. He did so. He could then say: "I have been twice Premier of France...
...meet Aristide Briand, just defeated in the election for President of France (see p. 23). Warmly Uncle Arthur and Br'er Briand clasped hands. Nobody knew then whether the Frenchman was still Foreign Minister or just Citizen Briand. His resignation was in the hands of Prime Minister Pierre Laval of France, but the Cabinet had issued an evasive communiqué suggesting that it might be withdrawn. Briand himself had said sturdily, "I resigned-it was my duty, wasn't it?" On leaving Paris, cheered wildly at the station by a French crowd in which prominent Frenchmen were conspicuous...