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...Allied countries as the vigilant apostle of preparedness to whom France owed her ability to resist the German hordes. At present the so-called "revisionist historians" are busy with piles of documents released from the secret archives of Austria-Hungary and Russia, on the basis of which M. Poincarè is charged with being the chief and successful arch-plotter of the World...
...Raymond Poincaré, whose name is great in France, was called by President Doumergue to form a "Sacred Union" Cabinet, last week-to weld the unruly French Parliamentary blocs into a stable unit, to save the franc from extinction. The task which, he faced was stupendous, unique...
...Constantine, Algeria-a political nobody-signed a petition requesting that the President designate some outstanding statesman to form a Cabinet in which all parties would unite to save the franc. Naturally, M. Doumergue chose the potent War-President of France, the representative of French "Big Business," M. Raymond Poincaré. Soon Poincaré "presented" to M. le President a Cabinet which would be unthinkable in any other country, a Cabinet in which statesmen notoriously one another's mortal enemies agreed to unite: Raymond Poincar...
Contrasts. The foreign policies of Poincaré and Briand are, re- spectively, as flaming war-oil and quenching peace-water. Briand has just fought and been defeated by Herriot in a political death grapple which Briand described on the floor of the Chamber as a "per- sonal duel." MM. Briand, Herriot, Painlevé and Sarraut are of the Left; MM. Poincaré, Tardieu and Bokanowski are of the Right...
Late in the week, Parisian merchants, terrified lest "Les Amér- icains" and their gold be frightened from Paris, began an anti-anti- American campaign through the press. The situation eased perceptibly with the return of the franc to 40 on the advent of M. Poincaré's Ministry...