The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-15

tons promptly.
 He made his decision against the advice of many, and despite | the disapproval of some or Frances friends abroad. He resigned in 1924 after a left wing victory. Frances currency then began to weaken, to collapse. Those were | the days when some Americans. to the deep mitigation of ruined Frenchmen, were burning franc notes in cafes.
 Poincare was called in 1926. France was faced with a crisis Hardly less menacing, than that of war, for three were no drums but only a fight against an enemy who could not be seen. Stabilized The Franc. Disregarding every consideration but saving the currency, he stabil- ized the franc at its present basis of roughly 1-5 its former value. Savings were sweyt away; many men were ruined. Protest availed nothing. Poincare, deliberate and hard-headed, was sure he had taken the only course. He won. He took office when the republic faced by far it's worst monetary crisis, and before long Frenchmen were calling him the savior of the | franc. He built for France f1- nancial bulwark which made her the evy of almost all the world, and the most potent economic force in Europe. It was because of his work that France was able t< etax 1xa cse, xx,1a O%t t,o oS currencies were being inflated. Poincare's name was not dim med by 1929, when grave illness went~two operations, but never re- stocky aggressive figure weakened and 1t was all he could do, working at intervals, to write his autobio- graphy.
 That he did not finish this was not been known before to permit course on which he would set to- ward his selected goal. | Brilliant In Hard Way. l He was brilliant but it was 6 hard rather than a dashing bril-. liance. He distinguished himself ir | every line of endeavor he under. took, including the army. in which ! in his youth, he served as all Frenchmen must. He became q captain of Alpine Chasseurs, the famous Blue Devils.
 It was not a surprise that his wife refused for him burial in the Pantheon. Like his old enemy Clemenceau, like Barthou, he loved | the soil, and he selected for his burial place the village of Nube- court in the Argonne Forest, where | an ancestor of his is buried. This selection was, in some measure. based on the fact that American soldiers drove the Ger | mans from Nubecourt cemetery in October, 1918, during the Argonne forest drive which also liberated the ruins of his estate at sam pigny.
 He never forgot his provincial France. He was an enthusiastic beekeeper, and also a lover of animals. When he was president he disappeared one day. His wife alarmed, called for a search. Sold iers found him in a cellar of the Elysee Palace, hunting two of his Persian cats. Funeral On Saturday. The funeral was fixed for Satur- day, in order that President Albert | Lebrun and several cabinet minis ters could attend the funeral of King Alexander at Belgrade Thurs day.
 | Premier Doumergue and Andre Tardieu, right wing leader and min ister without portfolio, arrived at the Poincare home and announced there would be national funeral
 Tardieu said death was caused by a heart attack, directly due to paralysis complicated by kidney | trouble.
 Poincare's body was attired in evening dress and placed on a leather couch in his study, where members of the government viewed 1t.
 Last of War Figures. l Churt, England, Oct 15-(UP)- "He was the last of the great out standing political figures of the World War in France" David Lloyd George, war time prime minister said today of Raymond Poincare.
 "Clemenceau, Briand, Ribaud Painleve, Viviani-all are gone and now there is Poincrae."
 He Hated Germany Berlin, Oct 15 (U.P.) Ray mond Poincare was indelibly asse- ciated in the German mind with the spirit of vindictiveness, and was regarded as the greatest Ger man hater."
 The average German was unable to forget Poincare's insistence on occupation of the Ruhr and what was regarded as his spirit of mill itary revenge.
 press comment would be restrain ed, If for no other reason in order that there would be no prejudic. Laval, new French foreign minis.
 ter, in whom Germans placed some hope, particularly industrial. ists who recalled his efforts fol
 business rappr0chment.
 Pope In Prayers l Vatican City, Oct 15-CU.P.) =
 Pope Plus, informed of Raymont
 Poincare's death, retired to hi chapel to pray. He ordered a mess
 age of condolence sent to the wi dow and the French government. Another Great Loss | Rome, Oct 15- (U.P.) =" "An other great loss to France" sait Premier Bepito Mussolini to-da. when informed of the death O
 Raymond Poincare.
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