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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...
...smashing retort to those who thought he yielded too much ($9,520,000) to British Chancellor Snowden at The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9), M. Briand cried: "I came home with acceptance of the Young Plan in my pocket?with the means for final liquidation of the Wrar. . . . Would you rather I had yielded nothing . . . won nothing . . . and come home wrapped in dignity and nothing more...
Like a Mark Antony come to bury Caesar, M. Briand reached his first climax by weeping with a purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...
Rushing on like a surfboard rider upon the flood of his discourse, M. Briand spoke for 90 minutes before reaching his grand climax...
...their feet leaped all the Deputies except a handful, and every single party leader except Louis Marin of the extreme Right, who gave the perfect touch of drama by sitting with arms folded, glow- ering. Amid such a frenzy as even M. Briand has seldom stirred, the Great Man descended with grandeur. But would the Chamber vote as it cheered? Dopesters thought not?conceded to the Cabinet at this point only a slim chance of winning a majority...