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Alexandre Millerand (1920-1924), 67, a lawyer of Clarence Darrow calibre, for 40 years a Deputy, the outstanding World War French War Minister, subsequently Commissioner-General for Alsace-Lorraine, a lifelong champion of decentralized government, pugnacious, obstinate, cursed by a lack of political foresight, prominent in the die-hard political Right, forced to resign the Presidency when Herriot succeeded in forming the Coalition of Left Parties...
Alexandre Millerand (January to February and February to September, 1920. See above). He "logically" succeeded Clemenceau upon the latter's resignation, as one of the outstanding politicians of the Right. During the two terms in question he showed great independence in picking able Ministers from outside his own party (Nationalist), weathered an attack by Theodore Steeg, now French Resident-General to Morocco, and increased so greatly in prestige that he was elected President of the Republic by a vote of 695 to 892 on the resignation of President Deschanel. (See above...
Shortly the entire bill passed the Chamber by a majority of 28. Next day it passed the Senate by the overwhelming vote of 205 to 26, while senator after senator declared: "I vote in deference to your judgment, M. Briand." Former President Millerand, who blocked M. Briand's attempts to gain security for France at Cannes, was all but thrust from the Senate when he attacked the bill. The excited senators shouted: "Renegade! . . . Traitor...
Died. Rene Viviani, 62 French Statesman (Premier in 1914), noted attorney, creator with Briand and Millerand in 1904 of the Republican Socialist Party, enlightened and patriotic pacifist, member of the Briand "Sacred Union" the War Cabinet which included every then living former Premier, "as an orator unequaled in the history of France"; of "complete collapse following illness", at the Malmaison Sanitarium...
Paris is soon to witness a sensational lawsuit. The cause of the suit to be sure, is only a quarrel between two dressmaking houses and would not have lured a single Frenchman from his escargots (snails) had not the plaintiff engaged ex-Premier ex-President Alexandre Millerand as counsel and had not the defense engaged ex-President ex-Premier Raymond Poincar...