Evening star., 1931-05-13
DOUMER ELECTED
FRENCH PRESIDENT
Victory Comes After BRAND
WithdraWS and Throws
Support to Marraud.
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him. In a few minutes he came out
again wearing the full evening dress
which is his uniform as presiding Of
ficer.
Fifteen minutes before the election
session was called to order BRAND ar
rived with Premier Laval and Theodore
TiSsier, who has been his right-hand
man in many political campaigns
The assembly hall itself was jammed
when Doumer, as presiding oficer, rang
the bell which called the meeting to
order.
The crush was so great that Am
bassador Edge, Eho arrived with Mrs
Edge, Hugh Wilson, American Minister
to Switzerland, and Mrs. Wilson, were
turned back at the doors because there
was only one diplomatic card among the
party. The matter was arranged later
and all were admitted, but this was
only one Of numerous similar incidents
The premier conferred with BRAND
and other members Of his cabinet just
before the voting started.
Cheer for Soviet Union.
The Communists raised a cheer for
the Soviet Union and their deputy,
Duclos, insisted on making speech
despite the rule that there shall be no
debate at this session. His own col
NS
Doumer pounded with his gavel.
When order was restored Doumer
called for the vote amidst applause and
boos.
The balloting began with the letter
''I" and Premier Laval was one OF the
FIRST to drop his vote in the urn.
Louis Marin's moderate group IN the
Chamber, numbering about 80, had oe-
cided in conference to vote for Doumer,
but 10 of the group announced they
would hold out for BRAND.
The hall is not big enough to hold
all the members of both houses and
most of the deputies stood tightly
packed in the aisles, leaving the seats
for their elder colleagues.
BRAND Well GrOomed.
BRAND was unusually well groomed. He
had had one of his rare hatrcutS-tnere
IS a political tradition that he visits
the barber only when he is about to
become premier again, and that mas
happened IL times in the past 81 years.
Mingled cheers and Kisses greeted
Senator Millerand, whom Doumergue
succeeded as President at the last elec-
ton here.
paul Painleve, unsuccessful presi-
Dental candidate in 1924, brought q
rollsinp cheer, which was interrupted
bv the simultaneous entrance of the
actress Yvonne Printemps, and her
husband. Sacha Guitry. They stole the
applause as they took their seats In
the gallery. .,
Predict Brands Election.
An hour after the meeting began
Brands friends were predicting that
he might very well win on the first bal
lot with about five votes to spare.
All Brands friends would concede
Doumer on the first ballot was maxi
mum of $50 votes, with about so ior
Deputy Jean HenneSsey, former minister
of agriculture.
This, they figured, would just about
enable BRAND to win.
Communists and RoyalistS in the
crowd outside came to blows and the
police were obliged to intervene. There
were 5000 soldiers protecting the ap-
proaches to the palace, but the ponce
needed no assistance.
BRAND Is Cheered.
A cheer rose as BRAND mounted the
roStrum to deposit his ballot. It SEEM
ed to come from half the men In the
han including the left and center. but
the members of the right were quiet.
There was only faint applause, AL OF
It from the right, as Douner passed
down his ballot.
Out in the Hobbies a Havas news dis
patch on the bulletin board quoted
Arthur Henderson, the British foreign
minister, as saying he hoped BRAND
would be elected. The dispatch said
he had made the statement at Geneva.
Brands partisans also placed on the
board quotations from newspapers In
the United States praising their can
didate.
This move incensed Doumer's parti-
sans, who asserted, We're electing a
President of the French Republic, not
Of the United States or Great Britain. .
Socialists Fail TO Agree.
The Senate's 120 Socialists, meeting
briefly at noon, failed to agree upon
support as a body for BRAND. It was
understood, however, that most Of the
Socialists favored the foreign minister.
AS a matter of fact. the Socialist in
decision was expected to work for M.
BRAND, since it robbed the Doumer
opposition of what would have been a
forceful cry, Bar the route TO the
Reds"
AS the hour of balloting approached
the struggle appeared to have been
stripped Of any political significance and
to have been narrowed down to the
personalities Of the two veteran pariia-
mentarians, the stern old Spartan
4db&4EA OOdHlEAt NAbO AOSb EpOG 0OAAo Al
the war, and the silyer-tongued BRAND.
Roads Placarded.
Some enemies of BRAND placarded
the automobile road from Paris to Ver-
sailles today, charging that voting for
him was equivalent to voting for Blum
Malvy and the Nunciature." Blum is
the Socialist leader, Malvy the former
minister Of interior who was banished
In 1918 for neglect Of wartime duties
but since has been rehabilitated and Is
now chairman Of the Chamber Finance
Committee.
The reference to the Papal Nuncia-
ture in Paris seemed to indicate that
the placarding was the work Of the
Royalist party, or Action FTancaiSe
which the Pope formally condemned IL
1926
M. BRAND smiling, was driven tc
Versailles Palace from the Quai D'Orsay
Just before noon.