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With the prestige of Poincaré assuring support from the Right, M. Briand turned to his confrere and rival of the Left, M. Edouard Herriot, for 21 years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...
King Gustaf promptly called to the Premiership Herr C. G. Ekman, onetime blacksmith, leader of the People's Prohibition Party, the most ardently Dry wing of the old Liberal party...
Zaghlul, knowing himself persona non grata to the British, came to discuss whether he might assume the premiership. It was almost as though President Coolidge, duly erected by a Republican landslide, had felt obliged to ask the ambassador of a foreign power at Washington whether he might enter the White House...
Zaghlul, no cringing foe of Britain, was reputed to have told Baron Lloyd over the teacups that if he assumed the premiership he would not respect the "four rights"* which Britain reserves to herself in Egypt. The Baron, dandified of mien, direct of tongue, appears to have replied that under the circumstances Zaghlul could not become Premier of Egypt. High tea was ne'er brewed higher...
...leftward, while the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself (1916-22), and the Liberal feud began in earnest. Latterly this once great party has declined to political insignificance. Last week Asquithians and Georgians vociferated over an issue of molehill stature which they erected into a Liberal mountain...