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Subsequent developments showed the "defeat" of the Government to be so convenient to Premier Poincaré and President Millerand as to give rise to rumors that the whole thing was a put-up job, staged by M. Poincaé in order to get rid of the unpopular Finance Minister de Lasteyrie and equally unpopular Minister of Agriculture Cheron...
Gustave Hervé, editor-in-chief of the Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good...
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