FRANCE: Election Notes

Premier Poincare, at Paris, urged world peace, ratification of the Lausanne Treaty, reparations guarantees, stabilization of the franc, in a notable election speech.

Ex-Premier Briand, at Nantes, said that election day, May 11, would be an epoch in the annals of the Republic. "It will weigh on the destiny of France for many years accordingly as the Deputies sent to the Chamber are really free men or otherwise. It will also have an effect throughout the world," he asserted. He continued that what: he most dreaded for France was isolation, which had been...

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