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...past week saw President Millerand, Premier Poincaré and ex-Premiers Briand and Painlevé, and Radical Mayor Edouard Herriot of Lyons rocked together in a conclave cradle. Rumors, like hope, sprang eternal; but nothing definitely important nor importantly definite became known. It was, however, generally assumed that Edouard Herriot will succeed Raymond Poincaré as 70th Premier of the Third Republic...
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Notables elected: MM. Poincaré, Herriot, Briand, Painlevé; Communists Marty and Cachin, the former of whom was convicted of treason and later pardoned; ex-Minister of the Interior Malvy, once accused by ex-Premier Clemenceau of treason...
During the election campaign, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, pacifist, academician, the man reputed to have favored pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany...
...Henri de Kerillis, journalist, last week quoted a speech made by Painlevé in 1913, showing how the politicien made a bad prophecy, and asked if he may not now be a bad prophet. The 1913 speech: "Above their hateful militarism, the democracies of Germany and Austria offer us their hands and open their hearts to us. Citoyens, do not allow yourselves to be impressed by the phantoms of War stirred up by Reaction and Clericalism...