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...Papa" Poincaré's majority was defeated in the general elections for the Chamber of Deputies...
...Poincaré (six parties...
This means that the present Opposition has a majority of 20 over the parties faithful to Poincaré. Premier Poincaré is to remain in power until June 2, when the new Chamber of Deputies meets. The choice of a Premier to succeed "Papa" Poincaré lay between MM. Herriot and Briand. Briand is the more popular, but Herriot heads the largest party, the Radical-Socialist group (Bloc de Gauche). Many people thought that Poincaré would attempt to get together a small majority, French parliamentary practices permitting such odd procedure, but this is most unlikely...
...this estimate be correct, M. Poincaré's new bloc (composed of Republicans of varying hue) is safe; for what every lazy French voter wants is security, religious peace, reparations, administrative reform and economy, and those things are what the Premier is striving to give them...
...Tshebakov, Yakovlefen and Yedinevsky, together with Mme. Vinegradova, all described at "intellectuals," were condemned to death at Kiev by a Bolshevik court for counter-revolutionary activity. Twenty other persons were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Premier Poincaré of France was moved to send a telegram to Moscow appealing for the lives of the professors "in the name of civilization and humanity and on behalf of the Government and public opinion in France." The Bolshevik said M. Poincaré was tactless and accused him of unwarrantable interference in Russian domestic affairs. The Soviet official journal Izvestia said with...