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...swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward for not carrying out his threat to split the party...
Suddenly the road turned, but not the Baldwin motor-it skidded. In a flash between split seconds several near-tragedies became comic. The Baldwin car knocked a farmer's cart, complete with horse and farmer, into the ditch. A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches. As ever, Mr. Baldwin rose to the occasion, imperturbable, good-natured. First he made sure that none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse...
...form a cabinet. The President could call upon M. Herriot, "leader" of the cartel of which M. Blum was the tail that wagged the dog. If M. Herriot found that even he could not form a cabinet, because he could do nothing with Blum, then perhaps the cartel would split; and the deputies thus released from this stubborn bloc could be reformed by M. Briand, together with deputies from the Right, into a coalition that could command a majority without Blum...
Finally, M. Briand stepped again into the limelight, while many an observer declared that he had deftly made use of both Doumer and Herriot to split the cartel, When President Doumergue called upon him once more to try to form a cabinet he was ready. After two days of dickering he got together a government, representing a slight swing to the Right from that of M. Painlevé, which it is hoped can command a majority without the Blum faction...
Tomorrow morning, the Conference will assemble at Phillips Brooks House, its rendezvous after the first meeting, at 9 o'clock. Following a speech by George Collins on the existing international organizations, the delegates will be split into small groups for further discussion on various phases of the question under consideration...