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...Premier Poincaré: "This Government will not allow a centime of expenditure to be made unless it is provided for by income." On refusing to consider discussion on interpellations on exchange questions the Premier was again sustained by 360 to 215 votes...
...long verbal dual took place in the Chamber between M. Herriot, Radical Socialist leader, and Premier Poincaré. M. Herriot, after roundly attacking the Premier's Ruhr policy, stated that if the Radicals should be successful in the May elections they would seek an equitable settlement on the reparations problem without resorting to coercion. He also complained of the lack of inter-Allied accord...
...real issues are over internal policy. M. Poincaré has interested himself almost exclusively in foreign policy, believing that the ills of France can alone be cured by a settlement of the reparations problem. With a general election in view for April, national politics are gradually pushing themselves forward and a political storm will surely break over the head of the present Premier of France...
...Premier Poincaré allegedly has no internal policy. He has been urged to state what he will do by members of the Bloc National, which leans toward the Right without taking in the Royalists, and to which M. Poincaré belongs. His answers were found unsatisfactory, with the result that the leaders of the Block National went over his head and approached President Millerand direct, as it was the latter who, with ex-Premer Clemenceau, founded the Bloc in 1919, when Millerand made his famed Ba-Ta-Clan speech (so named from the Paris theatre in which the speech...
...intended to exercise to the full the powers which the office conferred upon him, made a speech defining the policy of the Bloc for the coming election. Ever since then it has become more and more patent that President Millerand is the real power in French domestic politics. M. Poincaré must choose between remaining faithful to the Bloc or joining the maturing Bloc Gauche, a task in which he is showing considerable hesitation...