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...phantom government groping for a shadow majority in the darkness." Thus Le Temps last week characterized the struggles of Painlevé and his new Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 9): 1) to disentangle the numberless conflicting "live issues" perplexing the minds of French politicians; 2) to formulate a program that would command a working majority in the Chamber...
...late, ever lowering storm clouds have threatened to blot out M. Joseph Caillaux as Finance Minister of France. Since the Painlevé Cabinet superseded that of M. Herriot (TIME, Apr. 27) he has fought a stubborn but losing battle to balance the French budget without resorting to inflation or a levy upon capital (TIME, May 25), and failed in his attempts to devise a scheme for paying off the country's debts...
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...
Meanwhile the name of Premier Painlevé's "new" Foreign Minister was observed to be identical with that which had been "erased" a few hours before. It was Aristide Briand. Seven times M. Briand has been Premier of France. His famed War Cabinet contained every living former Premier.* Since his ill-starred attempt to gain "security" for France at Cannes, in 1922, he has steadily built up that ideal into the concrete embodiment which it achieved at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.). Last week, as Acting President of the Council of the League of Nations, he was able...
...Painlevé, when he attempts to secure passage for the Radical-Socialist capital levy, will now be faced in the Senate by a determined Conservative opposition, weirdly headed by (nominally) Radical-Socialist Joseph Caillaux...