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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat's meat round in the City, and if I do say so I'm a man of independent means...
Hectic midnight was the hour of betrayal, if such it was. Earlier in the evening M. Daladier had set out to tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game was up. En route to the presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would...
...this new line M. Daladier worked furiously until midnight, then saw in earliest morning papers that M. Briand had told the famed Havas Agency he would support not a "moderate centre" cabinet but one of "republican union." In plain English this meant insisting that Radical Socialist Daladier seek support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage...
Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier had decided to give up, and intended giving as an excuse that I had abandoned him. I immediately sent word that I was ready to collaborate. He gave up anyway, and I am beginning to ask myself whether what he hoped for from me was not collaboration, but refusal...
Clémentel Interlude. Since the cabinet crisis has now lasted over a week, flustered President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue hastily cast about for a man who might be able to form a cabinet of "republican union," chose that elderly vegetarian M. Le Senateur Étienne Clémentel,* the distinguished President Fondateur of the International Chamber of Commerce...