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...golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
Wide awake in an instant, M. le President sprang up with beaming face. For a whole week he had tried to get M. Poincaré to form a new ministry in succession to the Poincaré Cabinet of Sacred Union, torpedoed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 12).* At first the "Lion of Lorraine" had sulked and growled resentment at the torpedoing-the growls and sulks abating slowly. His sudden appearance now at ten p.m. meant unquestionably that he had succeeded in arranging a new and workable group of parties and ministries. Soon President Gaston Doumergue formally approved the following cabinet...
Prime Minister without portfolio-Raymond Poincar...
...Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned out of his previous lucrative post as President (Speaker) of the Chamber of Deputies. Since then he has eaten humble crow by accepting the portfolio of Public Instruction and Fine Arts in the present Cabinet of Sacred Union, wherein Raymond Poincaré is Prime Minister and Aristide Briand retains his pet post of Foreign Minister. Thus it came about that Edouard Herriot had to go out to Pons, last week, as Minister of Fine Arts, and there dedicate a statue of such controversial and inflammatory sort that it plunged him headlong...
...extend assistance to clerical missions in the far flung French colonies. Their work was of the greatest value in coordinating a Colonial Empire so vast that it is the second largest in the world. The Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter...