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...interview at Lyons, M. Herriot gave some reliable indication of what his policy will be, if or when he assumed the Premiership...
...Bolshecrats of Moscow, expecting the fall of Premier Poincare, forecast the early recognition of Sovietland by France. This hope was based on the possible succession of Mr. Edouard Herriot to the French Premiership...
Every sort of pessimistic prediction, however, was made on Mr. MacDonald's accession to the Premiership; but he still holds the reins, and his grip grows stronger, if anything. Whether his French counterpart will fare so-happily will depend upon his success in finding the common purpose of his variegated groups and in keeping this bond of political fellowship swell in the fore-ground...
...Government. Premier Macdonald's health was reported to be causing grave alarm. The double yoke of the Premiership and the Foreign Secretaryship were said to be aggravating has already poor state of health. His colleagues in the Cabinet want him to surrender the foreign portfolio. Meanwhile leaders in the House of Commons acted sympathetically toward...
Meanwhile in England there is J. Ramsey Macdonald, surrounded in his Cabinet by such intelligentsia as Oliver, Snowden, Webb and Trevelyan, and such rough-and-ready Labor union men as Henderson, Thomas, Walsh, and Hartshorn. Before he accepted the premiership, Macdonald announced the sufficiently socialistic policy of a capital levy, and nationalization of the mines and railways. And there comes as convincing proof of the road this new government is to take the proposal to recognize Soviet Russia...