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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...
Torrential rains in the French sectors of Riffland brought all operations to such a complete standstill last week that Marshal Pétain entrusted the High Command of the French forces to General Naulin and set out from Fez for Paris. To correspondents at Marseilles he remarked, "The military action is terminated. I now turn over the task to the statesmen...
Meanwhile the French command in Morocco is organized as follows...
General Naulin and the staff of the French High Command will winter at Rabat, on the Atlantic coastline, a few miles north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west...
Popular opinion has frequently tended to undervalue the importance of the elections for Freshman dormitory committees. That this tendency can only have unfortunate results should not be difficult to demonstrate. For while it may be true that dormitory committees cannot command in the eyes of the college and the eyes of the college and the public at large the prestige held by the more pretentious councils and committees, still the dormitory committees, composed of the first elected officers of the class, have a very real opportunity to be of service to the class...