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...entry into the League of Nations, arrived in la ville lumiere Ras Taffari, Crown Prince and Regent of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the first of his House to visit Paris since the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643). With him he brought two lions and two zebras for President Millerand...
...long ago President Millerand threatened to resign if the Bloc National were defeated. The transfer of some 100 votes to the Radicals and Socialists leaves the Bloc in a minority and critics were wondering if the President would carry out his threat. A Socialist régime would in no way suit M. Millerand's policy of active participation in governing France...
Subsequent developments showed the "defeat" of the Government to be so convenient to Premier Poincaré and President Millerand as to give rise to rumors that the whole thing was a put-up job, staged by M. Poincaé in order to get rid of the unpopular Finance Minister de Lasteyrie and equally unpopular Minister of Agriculture Cheron...
President Millerand moved surely and boldly, revealing himself as the velvet hand within Poincaré's mailed fist. He announced that M. Poincare would form a new Cabinet. In a statement from the Elysee Palace (Executive Mansion), M. Millerand showed that the radicals need expect no change: The general lines of the French policy cannot possibly be changed for any other reason than the clearly expressed will of the country. The President of the Republic has every confidence that M. Poincaré, whose name symbolizes this policy, will form a new Cabinet which can continue this policy of firmness...
...Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...