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“THE LAUGHING DICTATOR'
(By Harold G. Cardozo.)
Paris." importance but which have no elec-- If MGaston Doumergue is to be bral appeal are shelved from sit- because the dictator of France and the re-ing to sitting while deputies spend mouth former of the Republican Constitu-heir time trying to extract sub-
usation, then he will be a laughing-sidies and money by hook or
of dictator. For there a is no man in crook to be spent in their conati- | glasses is often as dod as a course France who has so infectious atuencies, The Budget takes months
of exercises.
smile and so genuina-an air of to vote, as every deputy wishes to amused good humour and good na-jadd.just that item of expenditure |ture.".
which will please his own electors.
of myopy or des
Admiral As Professor
A man fust under middle belght, Perpetual changes in Govern→ It is rare for a university to at. of stout build, with broad shoulders ment which lasted over six months tract an admiral to its professor-on which is set a large head of was considered to be long-lived- fal. staff.
jateel-grey hair, a broad face and were due, he saw, to the devouring
twinkling good-humoured grey ambition of deputies 'anxious to be i Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, who has just been appointed to the eyes and a small grey brush mous Ministers.
tache, M. Doumergue is typical of These continued changer had dis- Vere Harmsworth Professorship of Imperial and Naval History at the bourgeoisie of the south of astrous effects, as they prevented Ministers from keeping proper con- Cambridge, retired from the ser
When he was President and went trol of the administration of their vice three years ago.
back to his native "Midt" ki} his departments. He has studied, written and lec-friends, peasants and townstolk Finally, he could see that favour. tured with Macaulay-like zeal. Nor alike, would call him not by the itfam and political jobbery were Is this surprising, for he married ceremonial "Monateur le Presi- everywhere rife.
France.
a sister of Gertrude Bell, and is dent," but by the affectionate name During his term of office, and thus related to Professor G. Mof "Gastounet." "Gastounet's' | since his retirement, M. Doumer- Trevelyan, reglus professor of mo-smile and cheerful laughter were gue has reflected at great length [dern history at Cambridge. famous throughout France during on all these suestións.
Although precise in speech, the the troubled seven years of his Pleaded For Party Truce Admiral still carries the breezy tenure of office, and all over France From time to time he has utter conditions, that are a grave han.way of the Navy. He speaks of a people loved that cordial smile and led a word of warning, urging that "National Union" was necessary in dicap upon industry. As we look discussion or debate, for instance, that laughing look.
For the last year That, perhaps, is why to-day all face of the foreign danger, plead- abroad the situation is not less as a "quack." difficult. Here the task of a Na-or so he has lived in the country. France is welcoming him back, and ing for a party truce in the inter- His rare visits to London have us-why all France is grateful to him eats of France's economic recovery, tional Government must be to give the voice of this country ally been for research work into for the sacrifice he has made in re- But, so far, his words have fallen
turning to Paris from his beloved on deaf, if friendly, earn. * that authority in council which naval hlatory or tactics,
Languedoc retreat of Tournefeuil. M. Doumergue believes that no, rightly belongs to its position
le, where he lives with his charm lasting cure can be found for ing. wife, whom he married on his France's trouble unless he can in- very last day as President of the spire the youth of the country, Republic.
with enthusiasm for his reforms. Gaston Doumergue is one of He thinks that it is possible with" those French politicians—not too public opinion behind him to re- from numerous of whom I find it poss!-form" parliamentarianism ble to say, "He is an honest man, within, and this is the task he is...... in fact, in word, in deed.".
undertaking,
Your Daily Smile:
· BRACES
in Europe. Whatever may have been our success in meeting our the lown financin! situation, there re- mains the task of bringing sta- realisation that whatever the bility to the world-a task that "I wish my wife would give up achievements of the present Adis certainly not made easier by ministration may be, they need the complications of American "She's rather thin already, isn't to be impressed on the minds of policy. Wherever we look there she?":
defence.
slimming."
*
THE DIFFERENCE
the electorate. Ministers may is, call for a statesmanship, bold "Thin! Old boy, she's embarras- -- Although he came early to poli-First, and most important, he plead that they have been too oc- and far-seeing enough to handle singly thin. D'you know a man cupied in doing to have time difficulties and dangers that arise came up to me whilst she was tieal life, he has always been fond wishes to give the President of the either for detailed explanation or out of conditions about which swimming at Brighton and asked of saying that it was quite by acel Republic, Jointly with the Prime We may admit the previous experience offers little if those were my braces floating on dent that he was a politician and Minister, the right to dissolve the that if he had to live his life over Chamber, and he wishes to`ase a validity of the plea, recognising guidance, No Government, and the water,"
again he would choose quite a dif- dissolution become a normal part one claiming to be at the same time that the whole least of all
|ferent career.
of French political life. field of criticism has been left national in its composition and
Born in 1869, of a good middle- M. Doumergue also objects to the open to the opponents of the outlook, can rest on what has
The motorist had been fined forty class family, he studied for the long protracted' parliamentary ses- Government and to the men who hitherto been done. If the cri- imaginatively picture themselves tics are to be silenced. if the op- shillings for an offence. He entered law with the idea of taking up an sions in which little work is done, in the role of dictators. No ponents are to have their grow. protest, saying, "I fully expected administrative career. He was ap- but which keep upsetting Cabinet
lessened, the to be exonerated, and didn't bring pointed a county court judge and aftor Cabinet. Government, however great its ing confidence merits, can afford long periods of Prime Minister and the other any money with me. May I leave was filling a post in Algeria when The practice of treating Cabin- he heard that a similar post at his éts ng Aunt Sallies will disappear silence. "We must educate our spokesmen of the Government my car as security, meantime?"
The clerk of court said: "No, native town of Aigues-Vives was when the Chamber knows that each. masters," said Disraeli. With a must show that they have a
Premier has the decree of dissolu- widely extended electorate only broad and comprehensive policy you'd better leave your watch." vacant.
for the future" "If that be forth- "Oh, dear no," retorted the motor-
tion in his pocket and can send partially educated in the large issues of national policy that coming there is no doubt that fat, Indignantly. "I paid a fiver for necessity has become far more the country will respond to my watch!" urrent than it was, This Na Courageous leadership as it did tional Government has now en-two years ago.
tered upon the always dangerous third year of office. If criticism
is to be stilled it must not rest
Lower Currency
Thrust Into Chamber Applying for his transfer he met them home to undergo the cost and with a refusal. This angered him, inconvenience of a new election at and, desirous of having leave, he any moment..
(Continued on Page 10) Passing Thought on Seeing a Pic- put forward as an excuse that he
ture of Winter Sperin
wished to stand for election to the Oh, woad some power the giftie gis Chamber. He did not mean it ser- iously, but it was a convenient no- tion.
HEARTBREAKING
Much to his surprise, when he reached Aigues-Vives he found un election committes functioning and]
on the greatness of what it has Czechoslovakia has followed To ski ourselves as other skiers. Accomplished, but be prepared to the fashionable lead of the, mo- show that it has a programme ment by depreciating her cur adequate to deal with the pro-rency. The gold content of her blems that have yet to be solved. crown is to be reduced by 16.6 A wealthy man had a ca¦ from an his friends enthusiastic about the In "a two years of office the Gov-per cent., Involving a drop of old school friend, a chronic bor-result. They were right. He was erbent has made a notable be- one-sixth for the purposes of rower. The visitor, approaching his triumphantly, elected and never ginning. It has restored finan- foreign exchange, but leaving task tactfully, told "harrowing ceased to represent his conatituen. cial stability to a country that, the internal value for domes story of business misfortune, cy, first in the Chamber and then under Socialistic influences, was tic purposes & unaltered">In a matrimonial rupture, family up- in the Senate. hurtling to bankruptcy. A mea broadcast address the Prime heaval, and personal ill-health. Domergue,, whole a good sure of confidence has been given Minister, M. Malypete frankly The wealthy man touched the bell administrator, a man of the old to the home manufacturer and to declares that the sole object of
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He's, break-quainted with his job, has few time. They assembled at the
bitions, otherwise he would have Kerry Wharf, their starting place, been far more often Prime Miniat one o'clock and went to Taipo tex, His election to the Frealden and Yuen Loong, where they had |cy in 1924, after the Radicals had their refreshments,
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