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France. As to the flight of capital from France provoked by the fall of Premier Doumergue's "Truce Cabinet," the Bank of France was seen last week to have lost gold worth 360 million francs, or less than one-half per cent of its reserves of over 82 billions...
...however, Gaston Doumergue is no Georges Clemenceau, no tiger. He never was of the calibre of Poincare, Foch and Clemenceau-but he survived them. Last winter, when blood spattered the Place de la Concorde, only ex-President Doumergue, as Premier, had prestige enough to save France by organizing a truce which last week had lasted nine long months. Now that his truce must end, how would he end it? With all the fervor of a sterling bourgeois and a passionate Republican, M. Doumergue exhorted Colonel de la Roque not to attempt a Fascist solution of the crisis...
Paris, Nov. 6--Premier Gaston Doumergue's "salvation" coalition cabinet narrowly averted downfall today when members of the opposition radical-socialist party bloc in parliament voted to continue the political truce until Thursday...
Therein lies the prime reason for a chronic warfare between Press and Radio, which for eight months has been held within bounds only by an armed truce...
...Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows a kindly but aloof gentleman, a believe-it-or-not Christian Soldier. But some of the soldiers he commanded were more human if less humane. One Confederate private, rummaging the battleground during a truce after Fredericksburg, was reprimanded by a Federal officer for salvaging a rifle; the officer said that was against the rules. Said the butternut veteran: "Never mind, I'll shoot you tomorrow and git them boots." That Lee's example of considerate politeness sometimes had its effect on his men was shown by one of them...