Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-18 | Page 4 | New Frech President Belongs to the Great Family of Browns

New Nw French President To th the Gr Great Grait eat Family amily of By MINOTT SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer PARIS May 18 Albert 18 Albert Francois Lebrun the old year president of France Francc is n a member of ot the great Brown family which numbers its members by the million Lebrun which is French for Brown of or course is pronounced broen Lc This particular member of the Brown family was born August 2 29 1891 1691 at Mercy Haut in the department department depart depart- ment of or ct And besides his accomplishments as an orator and n a member of the French senate President Lebrun can plow a field better than I can according ac etc cording cordin to Gabriel Lebrun the French leaders leader's farmer a a a aThe The new president comes from a family of or Lorraine peasants and like so many other European postwar leaders he is entirely a self self made made man A Lorraine schoolmaster who recognized recognized rec the youn youngsters youngster's ster's promise and urged that he be sent away to school may be credited with having started Lebrun on his way to fame tame The young farm form boy studied at Nancy and then was WilS graduated from the National School of or Mines in 1890 1896 being regarded as a great scholar there After two years at his profession profession sion he entered politics and was elected elected elected elect elect- ed to the chamber of deputies at nt the ag age of 29 in 1900 He became secretary of or the chamber chamber cham cham- ber in 1 1906 1006 06 and vice president in 1 1913 13 on the eve of or the tile World war When German troops overran northern France in the early months of 1914 his old home was occupied and stripped of most of or its valuables o a In 1920 shortly after the close of ot the war Lebrun was elected to the French senate and he promptly began be be- gan gari the rapid strides which led to his election as president 12 years later Within a few months he was tas considered considered con con- one of ot the nations nation's greatest orators and was called the best best- dressed man in m French politics polities In 1921 he gained international recognition recognition tion as a member of the mixed commission commission com mission on armaments of the league of nations and md represented France as asa asa asa a delegate to that body In 1923 1023 On June JUn 11 1931 he succeeded Paul Doumer as ns president of oC the French senate an office which very nearly corresponds to that of or vice president president dent of the United States When Doumer fell a victim of ot an assassins assassin's bullet the little dirt farmer farmer farm farm- er ler from Lorraine became his natIons nations nation's notions notion's na no- tion's leading citizen and one cf the themen themen themen men on whose shoulders rest the heavy burdens of ot peace and security in Europe II Lebrun brun is a conservative in politics and his policies will very likely be Ithe j the policies of Laval 1 and T Tar France must keep its Ili position dominant military power n a dI In jn E he believes arid and while he i is u to to reduce armaments there i u chance he would agree to am any to make Frances France's ro i P Place ce i In i European scheme one of l lance tance s French business men backed bruns brun's candidacy for tor pr president 4 most to aJ a n mon man They remember work he did shortly after th rehabilitation of ruined ina w Will 11 northern France in and they him to find lk a way out o of the business slump pr pres 1 As the president of Lebrun w will Jl probably do France little th b startling but he may be relied to follow u safe saCe a middle cour course