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Caillaux. Great interest was aroused by the fact that Premier Briand offered the post of Finance Minister to Joseph Caillaux before calling in M. Peret. The temperamental Caillaux declined, saying that he would have to hold the premiership as well in order to put through the drastic reforms which he now deems necessary. He was reported to have declared bitterly that under no circumstances would he enter a Cabinet with War Minister Painleve, who, as Premier, recently booted M. Caillaux (then Finance Minister) into the cold. (TIME...
...ready to get and do many other things, when the Balkans broke open. He believed that Gladstone's previous premiership had lowered British prestige. Bismarck had become Europe's autocrat. So when Bismarck seemed to take control of Balkan affairs against Turkey, it touched the Imperial pride and anti-Gladstonianism of Disraeli, who promptly told Bismarck, "No!" Thus, despite Gladstonian moralizing, Disraeli went to Berlin in 1878, dictated a Treaty which left Turkey a little territory and Britain all the glory. Glorious indeed was the day when Bismarck summarized Europe by saying: "Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...
Faced with such truculence within its ranks, the Cabinet resigned, "ousting" M. Caillaux by a process which superficially resembled cutting off its head to spite its nose. Actually the process was not so rash, for President Doumergue promptly called upon M. Painlevé to step up again into the Premiership from which he had momentarily stepped down...
...affiliate with the Labor Party. This action is a severe setback to those who believe a violent revolution is the only solution to the proletariat grievances. It is a further indication of the tendency of the Labor Party toward Conservative policies, a tendency first seen clearly during the premiership of Ramsay Macdonald. This tendency probably received impetus from the Labor Party's defeat in the last general election, a defeat largely caused by the nation's fear of Communism. England, in spite of unemployment, is evidently rapidly recovering from the War and from the consequent radical movements. The Labor Party...