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...Dick and Harry are never elected. Electors are not the French people but the politically sophisticated National Assembly (Senate and Chamber of Deputies). Last week, after Albert Lebrun agreed to run for a second seven-year term-pressed to do so as a gesture of French solidarity against the dictators-the result was a foregone conclusion. Surprising, however, was the amount of opposition which developed...
...Lebrun received 506 of 904 votes. The opposition was not so much to popular President Lebrun as to Premier Edouard Daladier's policies. Principal opposition came from Communists and Socialists, who scattered their votes-in order to express their lively joy in the game of politics-among various minor candidates and even among some who were not candidates at all, such as ancient (82) Marshal Philippe Petain, recently appointed French Ambassador to Franco Spain (19 votes...
...Assembly, members remained seated on Left benches and shouted with gusto "Resign! Resign!" The Right answered with cries of "Go home to Moscow!" Finally strains of La Marseillaise broke out, and soon everyone was singing the anthem, enjoying a patriotic thrill in that unity against aggressors which President Lebrun represents...
...French President has ever completed a second-seven-year term. The only one who has ever tried served two years. Last week President Lebrun indicated that he would stay in office only so long as the present international crisis lasts. Gallic wits predicted that in that case he would have to serve his full term...
...rest of the proceedings at Montélimar. indicated a high degree of unanimity between the President and his Premier. Premier Edouard Daladier eulogized him. In return M. Lebrun, who had recently been exposed to Neville Chamberlain's belated distrust of the dictators, came out strongly against aggressors, and praised the strong reply of Premier Daladier to Benito Mussolini's declaration on Italy's colonial issues (TIME, April 3). M. Daladier had said quite flatly and unexcitedly over the air that: 1) France would willingly discuss Italy's demands as soon as Italy clarified them...