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...Gaston Doumergue elected. His candidate for the Presidency of the Senate, le Sénateur Bienvenu-Martin, defeated; le Sénateur Justin de Selves, Poincaréist, elected. His candidate for the Presidency of the Army Committee of the Chamber of Deputies defeated; le Député Maginot, Minister of War under Poincare, elected. His policy of withdrawing the French Embassy to the Vatican (TiME, June 16) and that of granting amnesty to political exiles and prisoners were met with strong opposition in the Senate. Finally, ex-Premier Poincaré gained a point of vantage by being unanimously...
...Pensions?Andre Maginot...
...André Maginot...
...French Army. Under stress of arguments urging that France must be ready for "the next war," full power was given the Government to order mobilization by decree, without immediate ratification, demanded in a Socialist amendment. The Socialists insisted that the authorization should apply only to national external security. M. Maginot, Minister of War, replied: "We must also be prepared against the possibility of internal insurrection." The amendment was defeated, 380 to 190. The Army will consist of 68 infantry regiments, 5 Foreign Legion regiments, 208 air squadrons, 19 companies of captive balloons. Colonial and Algerian troops were not included. Numbers...
Premier Poincaré, Minister of Finance Lasteyrie, Minister of War Maginot and Sub-Secretary of Aero- nautics Eynac appeared before the Senate Committee of Finance and Foreign Affairs to state why loans of 400,000,000 francs to Poland, 300,000,000 francs to Yugo-Slavia and 100,000,000 francs to Rumania should be made. After the session the Committee adopted the bills relating to Poland and Yugo-Slavia, but post-poned for further consideration that relating to Rumania. The bills are to be submitted to the Senate and the Chamber...