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They noted that earlier in the week the Liberty Party caucus re-elected him Chairman of the party by 17 votes to 7 with Mr. George and 5 others abstaining from voting and 12 Liberals not even present. Thus Mr. George returns to the Commons none too enthusiastically supported by his little "corporal's guard" of Liberals. In the opening debates several Labor M. P.'s made flattering implied overtures to him. Observers opined that Mr. George is listening hard, with his ear to the ground...
...rival proposal was that of le Cartel des Gauches, the coalition of the left, headed by M. Herriot. It featured the tightening up of existing tax machineryThe "Socialist wing of the Cartel held a party caucus, and the delegates who attended voted, 1,766 to 1,331, against the party's supporting any Ministry whatever unless a majority of the Ministers should be Socialists. This was taken to mean that M. Herriot could not depend on the Socialists to support a Cartel Ministry with himself as Premier. The Cartel was declared split and probably impotent to oust M. Briand...
...coercive power of his wire-pulling were seen to have had their effects. The Cartellists began to doubt their ability to oppose a solid front to M. Briand. Suppose the Socialist wing of the Cartel should get out of hand once more? They reflected that a Socialist party caucus was shortly to be convoked. After that it might or might not be evident that the Socialists would line up solidly with the Cartel. Why risk a showdown with Briand before them? In a word, all these Cartellist doubts served to persuade Cartellist Ministers Chautemps, Deladier, Durafour and Renoult that they...
Young Senator LaFollette is no less an insurgent than his father. From babyhood upward he stood at his father's side and learned the catechism of insurgency. Last year the late Senator LaFolette was read out of the Republican caucus and denied appointment to committees as a Republican. No such course was taken last week when the Republican caucus met. The young Senator was invited to be present. He did not attend, however. The reason for the change of front by the regulars was that they deem it wiser now to be conciliatory. Next year one-third...
...time last week the tail, wagged by M. Blum, wagged on. He would listen to nothing but supremacy for his Unified Socialists. Thus faced with flat insubordination in the cartel, M. Herriot grew furious. After informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet, he rushed to a caucus of his still loyal adherents and had a motion passed approving his refusal to form a cabinet on Blum's terms. This action was widely interpreted as meaning an end to the cartel arrangement...