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...Cabinet of "Sacred Union" which made such legislative speed possible is no ordinary group of 13 ministers. Aside from their major attainments as statesmen, the Premier and eight of his ministers have published books of which France has no call to feel ashamed. Premier Poincaré and Minister of Justice Barthou have made history and then clapped it in scholarly fashion between covers. Foreign Minister Briand has to his credit an authoritative volume on the separation of Church and State. Books of travel, natural history and biography flow incessantly from the pen of Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier...
Premier Poincarar, in what receptacle the spaniel returned to France?..." Amid a rustle of handclapping which became a cheer, M. Poincar...
Today it is Lord Rothermere who shouts as with a million tongues the praises of Premier Mussolini and Premier Poincaré and keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William...
...Twice voted confidence in Premier Poincaré when he presented the war department budget for 1927, calling for an expenditure of 5,869,000,090 francs ($212,204,400). Though this represents the expenditure of 1,300,000,000 more francs than last year, the new budget was hailed as a "retrenchment." This paradox resulted from the fact that much of the equipment purchased last year for the Moroccan war (TIME, June 7) has not yet been paid for and accounts for the excess of this year's budget over last year's. Le Senat- ¶Welcomed back...
Majestic, M. Raymond Poincaré stalked to his office. There his eyes twinkled, his pen scratched. Soon...