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Said M. Doumergue last week in a broadcast to Frenchmen a la Roosevelt: "The Constitution must be revised to avert a dictatorship, a foreign invasion and another war. The situation in Europe is such that instability of our Government might prove fatal. Many able statesmen sit in our Senate and Chamber but they are scattered among the numerous groups which make Parliament look like a kaleidoscope. They pass their time fighting among themselves to achieve a power [as Premier] which it is impossible for them to use well or usefully when they have obtained it. Is not all this...
Thousands of Frenchmen sat down then and there, wrote to their Deputies and Senators, demanded support for M. Doumergue. His prestige was at its zenith?but the politicians in his Cabinet remained politicians. When he asked their unanimous support last week they agreed 11-to-8 that the Cabinet should "submit" his demands to Chamber and Senate. Ominously the potent bloc of six Radical Socialist Cabinet Ministers under paunchy Edouard Herriot served notice that they retain "liberty of action" to oppose their own Premier in debate if they choose...
Last February when the first crisis of the Stavisky case had Frenchmen rioting in the streets, Gaston Doumergue picked white-chinned old Henry Cheron for his Minister of Justice with the reputed remark, "He is a funny old bore, but at least he is absolutely honest...
...Minister in the successive ministries of Poincare, Briand, Tardieu, he helped to keep the franc stabilized after the crucial days of 1926-27, and left with a budget surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. But ending inflation was a simple matter compared with cleaning up l'Affaire Stavisky. Frenchmen have forgotten about St. Therese and the budget of 1930. They only remember that the greatest political scandal since the War has not been explained nor have its perpetrators been caught, and, rightly or wrongly, they hold responsible the same kindly old Henry Cheron, Minister of Justice, who last week...
...Laigret, an enterprising man, tried unsuccessfully to get authority to inoculate Frenchmen with mouse-brain virus alone. In Tunis he was successful. When vaccinated Tunisians showed suspicious reactions (fever, hemorrhages). Dr. Laigret decided that he had used unduly big doses, and moved to French West Africa. The success which he announced last week was due, he said, to minute doses of the infected mouse brains...