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Premier and Foreign Minister: Raymond Poincar...
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...
President Millerand moved surely and boldly, revealing himself as the velvet hand within Poincaré's mailed fist. He announced that M. Poincare would form a new Cabinet. In a statement from the Elysee Palace (Executive Mansion), M. Millerand showed that the radicals need expect no change: The general lines of the French policy cannot possibly be changed for any other reason than the clearly expressed will of the country. The President of the Republic has every confidence that M. Poincaré, whose name symbolizes this policy, will form a new Cabinet which can continue this policy of firmness...
...chance- a possibility which the President of the Republic does not expect-it becomes impossible for M. Poincaré to constitute a Cabinet, the Chief of State will call to power only a Cabinet resolutely determined to direct its general policy along the lines indicated above...
...following this Presidential announcement, the Liberals were further dismayed by the announcement of the new Poincaré Cabinet, one of the most skillfully constructed Governments ever assembled in French politics...