Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-04 | Page 4 | Papers Praise Premier Briand

PAPERS PRAISE France Unites in Expression of Confidence That Statesman Will Act Energetically for Country's Defense. Paris, Nov. 4, 5:30 a. m. The morning morn-ing papers unite In the editorial columns col-umns 'in a chorus of praiso for Premier Pre-mier Briand's declaration in the chamber of deputies yesterday. Even the royalist press agrees that ho said in clear terms what it was necessary to say and promised unequivocally a policy of resolute action. The anarchist, Gustave Herve, calls the speech "the magnificent discourse of the spokesman of Republican France." The Journal says all parties have again bound themselves together in close union around the government from the right to the extreme left, having confidence that M. Briand will not energetically for the defense of the country. "The premier has spoken not only like a brave patriot but with the foresight fore-sight of a statesman," writes the So-cialisti, So-cialisti, M. Roumanet, in Humanite. Alfred Capus, in Figaro, singles out for praise M. Briand's declaration that negligence will be punished relentlessly re-lentlessly and his assertion that the enemies of France must not count on her becoming weary or discouraged.