Word: poincares
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...reason for the intractable attitude of the Baldwin Administration is not difficult to see. The British conceive that the Poincaré Government as determined to force a change of Government in Germany, which at this time may put the Communist element into power. In such an eventuality it is considered that civil war would break out in Germany and that the Federal Government system would collapse. This would play directly into the hands of France, who would be able to seize the Rhine provinces as a protective measure. This state of affairs would be most unwelcome to Great Britain...
Paris was threatened with a ministerial crisis when the Radical and Radical Socialist parties called upon three members of Premier Poincaré's Cabinet to resign. The three Ministers: Senator Paul Strauss, Minister of Hygiene and Social Prevision; Deputy Albert Sarraut, Minister of Colonies, delegate to the Washington Conference; Deputy Paul Laffont, Under Secretary of Posts and Telegraphs...
...Radicals asked the Ministers, also Radicals, to resign because they declared that the Cabinet was supported in office by "traditional adversaries of the Republic." The Left seems entirely convinced that Premier Poincaré has a sneaking regard for the Royalists, and it was partly because of this attitude that they recently voted against the Government on a question of internal policy...
...three Ministers, however, firmly refused to desert Poincaré, preferring to be ousted from their Parties rather than from the Cabinet...
Said Deputy Sarraut: "In present circumstances when some Republicans seem to be doubting my Republican faith, I am proud, though a Radical and Anticlerical, to remain at the side of that great patriot, Raymond Poincar...