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*The President is elected by an absolute majority of the Chamber and Senate, sitting together as the National Assembly; i. e. — a "Right" President (Millerand) may feel obligated to resign, if a "Left" Parliament is returned, so that it may elect a "Left" President (Doumergue). Actually the present Par- liament is very unstably "Left"—a fact which has caused the recent bewildering series of overturned Cabinets.
—The Locarno Pacts, promising _ security at last, were negotiated by Briand as Foreign Minister under Premier Pain-leve (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq., INTERNATIONAL).