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...growing opposition in the Chamber of Deputies of the Bloc National (whose foremost leaders are President Millerand, ex-Premier "Tiger" Clemenceau, Deputy Andre Tardieu) to Premier Raymond Poincare was accentuated by his illness, reported from fatigue...
...banquet of the Association of Republican Journalists, President Millerand of France said: "France has borne, without flinching, wounds deeper and more painful than financial ones, and she will stand fast in the future as she has stood fast in the past. . . To win the victory she has given all her sons; to maintain her credit intact she will give all her resources. Such is the unanimous will of France, irrespective of party...
...Seine because he wanted to see it before the floods abated. The following morning he rubbed shoulders with Parisiens and Parisiennes of all kinds, shapes and sizes as he went about in the pouring rain "to do some shopping." In the afternoon he paid an unofficial visit to President Millerand at the Palais dElysée. In the evening he went to the theatre. His next day was spent in "amusing himself," at least until he had to attend a dinner at the British Embassy. His last day was spent in a wild round of incognito lunches, dinners, dances. . , . Next...
...what he will do by members of the Bloc National, which leans toward the Right without taking in the Royalists, and to which M. Poincaré belongs. His answers were found unsatisfactory, with the result that the leaders of the Block National went over his head and approached President Millerand direct, as it was the latter who, with ex-Premer Clemenceau, founded the Bloc in 1919, when Millerand made his famed Ba-Ta-Clan speech (so named from the Paris theatre in which the speech was delivered) which laid down the objects of the Bloc...
Last October M. Millerand, who, when he was elected President in 1920, stated that he intended to exercise to the full the powers which the office conferred upon him, made a speech defining the policy of the Bloc for the coming election. Ever since then it has become more and more patent that President Millerand is the real power in French domestic politics. M. Poincaré must choose between remaining faithful to the Bloc or joining the maturing Bloc Gauche, a task in which he is showing considerable hesitation...