Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-27
PO|NCARE CABINETS
RESIGNATION GIVEN
Aristide BRAND, Retiring For
eign Minister, Expected to
Form New Government.
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tide BRAND. former foreign minister, to
assume head Of the government.
If M. BRAND should be asked to form
new cabinet he will approach the task
with an envied reputation as a master
parliamentarian Many credited his
impassioned speech near the end of the
chamber debate on the debt notifications
with pulling the government through at
all, the majority being just eight in
favor of ratification.
He is noted for a felicity of express
sion, a warmth of feeling. and an In
/ finite capacity to sway a crowd.
This will be M. Brands tenth time
as premier and his eighteenth post as
/ minister. He has been with Premier
Poincare as minister Of foreign affairs
since the ministry of July, 1926. and re-
manned in the reorganized cabinet Of
last November.
M. Brands choice is felt to be so OBJ
vious that it is expected President
Doumergue will summon him late this
afternoon and it is likely BRAND may
present his cabinet list early tomorrow.
President Doumergue lost no time in
getting to work and within a few min
utes after the cabinets resignation had
seen several political leaders and sum-
moned nearly score of them for con-
ferences during the day.
League Circles Pleased.
League of Nations circles in Paris
view the expected advent of BRAND as
premier as a great impetus to the
further tranquilization of Europe and
of great Importance to world disarma-
ment at the present time
1t is thought that the French will
collaborate warmly with any five-power
naval accord provided the negotia tions
are linked with the League and dove
tailed into the general activities of the
preparatory disarmament commission.
AS premier M. BRAND also would
speak with greater authority at the
September Assembly of the League con-
corning his new project amalgamating
Europe into sort of federation which,
while without a constitution would seek
union through economic force and the
consolidation Of peace.
Letter to Cabinet.
In his letter to his cabinet Premier
Poincare merely said it was necessary
for him to undergo an operation which
would disable him for three months at
least Circles close to him said this OPP
stringent treatment having failed.
The resignation came within a few
hours of his success in the French Par
lament in obtaining with Senate ma
jority of 212 votes ratification of the
debt accords with Britain and America.
He previously had eked bare majority
for the notifications from the Chamber
of Deputies.
The parliamentary victories were not
obtained without tremendous fight on
his part, involving speeches of more
than 80 hours duration before the
chamber and its committees prior to
opening of debate. 1t was this strenu-
Gus battle which wore him down and
fortnight ego led to his withdrawal from
the chamber and confinement to his
bed. where his physicians said he was
suffering from exhaustion.
Awaited Senate Vote.
Thursday rumors were current he was
in much worse health than was repre-
sented and yesterday it was predicted
freely he would resign as soon as the
Senate voted ratification. He enters
his SEVENTEEN year August 90.
The ministers, in seeking Poincare's
continuation as nominal head of the
government. made the point that Chan
cellor Mueller of Germany is at present
doing just what they asked him to do
Aside from the common conference
at The Hague on application of the
Young reparations plan there should be
no great political activity during the
next few months, Poincare had been
told, and the work in connection with
the reparationS conference could be
handled easily by his colleagues. Henri
Cheron, minister of finance, and M.
BRAND.
In the event NJ BRAND is asked to
form a cabinet it was believed he would
make an attempt at greater national
union than that attained by M. Poin-
care in his last government. constituted
as Of November IL, last year, and would
include in it the Radical Socialists,
whom NJ Poincare excluded.
Sketch of Poincare.
Once President of France and five
times prime minister of its govern
ments, Raymond Poincare. the uncom-
promising little Frenchman from Lor-
raine, grew gray and somewhat stopped
in the AZ years in the service of his
country. and created place for himself
not only paramount in France. but over
Shadowing all of Europe. When boy
he wanted to be poet.
His greatest task, probably, was re-
construction after the World War.
While still President he inaugurated the
economies and new fiscal laws which
stabilized the franc and began the coun-
try's rapid emergence from the post
war depression.
NJ. Poincare entered French politics
in 1887 as a deputy from the Depart
ment of the Mouse and from that time
to this has been almost constantly in
public Office. He became a cabinet
minister at the age of 80, when he ac-
cepted the portfolio of minister Of edu-
cation. The next year he became
finance minister, and two years later
president of the Chamber of Deputies.
Elected President in 1918.
He became President of the French
Republic in 1913, succeeding short
premiership, and until 1920 guided
France, most of the time with the as
sistance of Georges Clemenceau, the
Tiger" his premier. This was the try
ing period of the World War. Firmness
of the French President and his govern
ment did much throughout to render
Its military effective, until finally victory
crowned the achievement.
His postwar life was dedicated to two
objects, redressment of French finances
and making Germany pay for the war.
He succeeded well in the former and
with his occupation of the Ruhr his
stand on evacuation of the Rhineland
and his insistence on provisions of the
reparations settlement has done much
to achieve the latter also.
BAND CONCERT.