The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-15

~ tats ETn.E4r It. s$F t7Tenriette Denucci, an actress of ISalian origin, noted for her. beauty end her accomplishments. She was the first wife of a French Presi- dent to be officially received at foreign court. They had no chil- fdran
 The former President and Pre- m.sr was comparatively a poor man despite the fact that all his life he enjoyed large salaries or a 1 large income from his law practice
 and received considerable money -o- his writings. His personal re- quirements were Insignificant, but he was generous toward charity, to which most of his money went.
 The part of Poincare's career with which the world at large is mc.e interested began in 1912,
 when he succeeded Joseph Caillaux as Premier and assumed the di- lrcction Of foreign affairs. The in- ternational situation was grave and uncertain. The settlement of the i Balkan wars was laborious and risky Russia and Austria mob
 fixed and Austria lacked only the a3sant of Italy to attack Serbia. ! F 5.ncare,s clear and firm grasp of
 the complicated questions involved aided largely in tiding Europe over
 the crisis.
 Elected President
 | France was grateful and in 1913, at the end of Armand Fallieres' j term, Parliament elected Poincare i President of the Republic. He be- came one of the most popular chief executives the republic had ever had, but was soon to experience the fickleness of public opinion. Poincare's earliest recollections were of foreign soldiers with point ed helmets marching through the streets of Bar le Due. and like most people of Lorraine he con- ceived specail dread of another i invasion. He foresaw it long be- fore it happened and as President ! of the Republic he did what it was possible for a President under the restrictions of the French consti- tuition to do to prevent it.
 When the German armies were approaching Paris. General Joffre demanded h at the Government leave the capital Poincare resist ed. Joffre persisted; he wanted a free hand in and around Paris. The Government ceded and left for Bordeaux and with it vanished. the sympathy of the general public for their President.
 War Maneuvers
 Poincare took this change of for Hume philosophically and bent his energies as far as be could to aiding the national defense, and despite the constitutional limita- | tions to his action he exercised considerable influence on the con- duct of the war. It was Poincare who intervened when Marshal Sir John French was about to take the British Expeditionary Force out of the fighting line at the begin ming of September, 1914, It was he who at the beginning of the war had appealed to King George W for a declaration that Great Britain would stand by France. All the maneuvers for peace were re- ferred to Poinca-e.
 His greatest services per h p S were in ironing out differences between generals, keeping military commanders and heads of depart ments from clashing and exercising | a harmonizing influence with of- ficers while talking encouragement I to the soldiers in the trenches.
 Poincare retired from the Presi- dency in 1920 a poor man without a procession. He had spent his savings and his salary in welfare work. The law was no longer open to him, he thought, because he would be called upon to plead be- fore judges who owed their ad- vancement to him.
 Now" he said, T can indulge in my old desire to write" He wrote prolifically and well until his literary work was again interrupted by call to, duty. Monsieur Pom mart had resigned as President of the Preparations Commission. Poin- care was called on and accepted the post s