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Awkward Squad. Of the malcontents now awaiting trial M. Poincaré thundered: "They are a miserable awkward squad of adventurers plotting for the amputation and mutilation of France...
Thoroughly aroused, M. Poincaré then flayed those awaiting trial as "a hapless mixture of genuine separatists, theoretical autonomists, mere idealists, and dupes [of Germany...
Most significant and worth re-reading are the above sentences, when it is remembered that historians generally deem M. Poincaré an authentic pre-War apostle of revanche. By his own statement of last week he welcomed the War, once it had been begun, with an holy joy. Enemies are not lacking to charge that, as President of France (1913-1920), M. Poincaré schemed with Russia to precipitate...
...Young Alsace." Orator Poincaré concluded his electioneering appeal last week, thus...
...judge from the ovation which followed, Premier & Lawyer Poincaré had won his case. While most of the 559 mayors shouted "Vive la France!" he dramatically saluted with a kiss Mlle. Jeanette Wolff, aged 9, daughter of the Mayor of Bountzenheim by whom she was presented as "Young Alsace...