M. Albert Lebrun has been re-elected President of the French Republic by a comfortable majority as was anticipated when it became known that he had been prevailed upon to stand for candidature for a second term, The importance of this election cannot be minimized. M. Lebrun becomes the second President in the history of the French Republic to be elected fo another seven years' term, and at this critical juncture in European affairs it enables M Daladier to maintain the necessary continuity of policy which might have been interrupted had the Presidency changed. France has been described as government by an innumerable number of parties all of them French and this is illustrated by the re-election of M. Lebrua at a time when a unity of interests has been achieved in face of a dificult situation, The other French citizen to attain the distinction of re-election to the Presidency was M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, who was elected on January 30, 1879 and accepted a second term on December 18, 1885. President Lebrun's long career makes him a fitting occupant of the post. He was born a year after the Franco-Prussian war and entered political life as Deputy of the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. In 1911, he became Minister of Colonies in the Caillaux Cabinet and M. Poincare, who succeeded M Caillaux in 1912, retained M. Lebrun in his post which he abandoned with the fall of the Poincare Government in January, 1913. M. Lebrun returned to the Government when M. Doumergue formed a new cabinet in December of that year and he served until June, 1914. In 1918, he headed the administration of the war-ravaged regions for at that time he was member of the special War Committee. In 1931, he was elected President of the Senate succeeding M. Paul Doumer, who then became President, and barely a year later M. Lebrun was elected President when M. Doumer was assassinated by a Russian, Algxander Gorgouloff, in Paris.
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