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Their Majesties called upon bachelor President Gaston Doumergue at the Élysée and remained to luncheon. Among those present were Premier Painlevé, Foreign Minister Briand, Minister of Marine Borel, ex-President and Mme. Raymond Poincaré. Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was tactfully absent. The King afterwards invested Premier Painlevé with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
...motion was then offered expressing the Senate's lack of confidence in the Government, was carried 156 to 134 votes, MM. Poincaré and Millerand voting against the Government. The Premier afterwards resigned...
...Liberté, which supports MM. Poincaré and Millerand, said...
...Alexandre Millerand scored an overwhelming victory (520 to 175 votes) over his Socialist opponent in a by-election for a Senatorship of the Seine Department. The new Senator became, in fact as well as in name, the leader of the Union Républicaine, of which party ex-Premier Poincaré has hitherto been the Senate leader. And he lost no time in flinging the gauntlet in the face of the Herriot Government...
...dissolution of Parliament with an early general election, but naturally the wish was father to the thought. At the present state of political feeling in the country, a general election would be likely to end in the return to power of ex-President Alexandre Millerand and ex-Premier Raymond Poincaré. What then? Is France once more to witness the ousting of a President as it did last June (TIME, June 23) when President Millerand was forced to resign? The answer was unborn...