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'pOInCARE TO FORM
FRENCH MINISTRY
Former President Tentatively
Accepts Invitation
BRAND SUDDENLY RESIGNS
Premie's Action Complete Surprise,
as Support of Chamber Seemed As
sured-Clashes With MilIerand.


sured-Clashes With MilIerand.
Paris. Jan l3.-President Millerand
summoned former President POincare
Ia the Eiysce Palace and formally ask
ed him IL assume the task of forming
Il new French cabinet to replace that
OF Ari<,i,ir Hriand, which resigned.
Koul Ferret. president of the French
clamh,-r OF deputies, had previously
been called to the Elysee Palace for
consultation with President Millerand
j was understood he was offered the
task Of forming a new cabinet, but
that NJ pcret asked for delay to
consult his friends and deliberate over
Il: :-ht.
freS>lent Milerand, according to
CUSTOM summoned NJ. Bourgeois, pres
idrit of the senate, as well as NJ.
Perez, fer Il conference on the situa-
tiGI.
Premier BRAND announced his resig-
nation to the chamber after an hours
speech in which ho Justified his atti-
tude At the Cannes conference, appar-
emily carrying the chamber with him.
Later he and all the members of his
cabinet went 10 the Palace of the
Elysee and formally presented their
resi- gnations to President Millerand.
Ii developed after the surprising
and wholly unexpected action of the
premier that he had not finally deter
mined TO resign when he entered the
chamber, but that he construed the
opening address of Raul Peret, presi
dent of the chamber, as an attack on
the government, and plainly showed
his resentment. In his opening speech,
NJ. Peret said:
We greet with JOY all closer ties
between peoples and every defensive
pact with a definite object Of prOtec-
lion that adds to the accord now bind
ing MS to our valiant ally, Belgium,
but the country would not consent to
undertakings in defiance of and in
violation of rights we deem impre-
scriptible.''
Premier BRAND considered this de-
claration inimical and clearly showed
his feeling over it.
M. BRAND, after making his an
nonncementu, left the chamber alone.
The members of the cabinet followed
as soon as they had recovered from
their surprise.
Groups of deputies and government
officials speedily gathered in excited
discussion of the seriousness of the
situation. seeking way out of the
difficulty.
One report was that NJ. BRAND had
gone home, but a semi-Otticial an
nouncement stated he had gone from
the chamber to the Elysee Palace to
formally present his resignation to
President Millerand.
Brands resignation, in the face OF
What was considered a certain major
ity III the chamber of deputies. came
as Il climax to a stormy session of the
fnll cabinet at the Elysee Palace, at
which the premier and President Mil
lerund clashed, the French president
remaining unalterably opposed to the
text of the proposed AnGlo-French
treaty.
". Brands resignation came exact
ly one year after the fall of the
Leygues cabinet. 1t was NJ. Brands
sixth resignation from the premier
ship, and only once his his ministry
been overthrown.
NJ BRAND astounded the chamber
with his perOratiOn after full hour
OF presenting matters Of his policy
with extreme bluntness.
Il have devoted one year of my
life" he declared lin trying to place
my country in such position that it
would not be the vassal of anyone. /
still have the thorough belief that
Great Britain is a friendly nation. l
have brought you security. My hands
were tied on reparatinas by the treaty
of Versailles. 1 have done my best.
Let some one else do better"
Beginning his peroration, NJ. BRAND
said he wanted the confidence Of the
chamber. but declared that during his
absence there have been underhand
dealings" He said he had come bach
TO face parliament and tell what ne
had done. Now he was finished.
Driand's resignation leaves condi,
tions at the Cannes conference in q
difficult situation and various govern
mental officials were comforting at thu
Elysce Palace as to what was the bes
course to pursue. NJ Loucher minis
ter of liberated regions in NJ. BRANDS
cabinet. officially represents France
at Cannes, but he is member OF
the cabinet which automatically went
out through the premier's resignation
NJ. BRAND was given Il tremendous
ovation as he left the chamber OF
deputies, and great crowds of deputies
surged about him to shake hands. The
general opinion that he would have
had handsome majority If he ha6
STAYED his resignation for a vote Of