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Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...
...well might chase them from Warsaw, united in a desperate attempt to force Marshal Pilsudski into the open and voted what amounted to "no confidence" in the Cabinet 260 to 92. The Bartel Cabinet thereupon resigned. Marshal Pilsudski, to the satisfaction of many a Pole, countered by assuming the Premiership himself. Significance. The new Cabinet was generally hailed with relief by the press of Warsaw as "a strong Left Democratic Government . . . the strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence [1918].- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners...
Premier Arthur Meighen of Canada, his party (Conservative) defeated at the polls (TIME, Sept. 27), quietly handed the resignation of his Cabinet to Governor General Baron Byng. The Baron was preparing to return to England last week and scarcely tarried longer than it took to call to the Premiership William Lyon Mackenzie King, leader of the victorious Liberals...
Baron Byng was expected, as a matter of course, to call Mr. King to the Premiership. Interest quickened as to whether "the Premier-elect" could form his Cabinet soon enough to hasten from Ottawa to London in time for the Imperial Conference in October...
Liberal Premier King kept his Cabinet going on the slenderest of majorities until his defeat by one ballot and resignation a fortnight ago. (TIME, July 5.) Last week Conservative leader Arthur Meighen stepped confidently into the Premiership. Within 72 hours he, too, suffered defeat. Lest this teetering and tottering continue indefinitely, Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy promptly dissolved the Canadian House of Commons...