Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28
"NATIONAL' FRENCH MINISTRY

The Caillaux cabinet fell on the 10th
instant and was succeeded on the 18th
by Q cabinet formed by
poiucare NJ. Raymond Poincare.
w.,.. The cord OF public feel
WeaUO0u. ing has been stretched
to. it's utmost tension for some time.
and the French public. wounded by the
scandalous disclosures affecting the
individual action OF NJ. Cailaux and
weary Of makeshift ministries that In
the end discredited the nation. halls
the advent OF NJ. Poincare as safe
refuge for the republic. As announced
in the headlines OF many Paris
journals. the Poincare cabinet is
treated as q national" ministry.
Nor was II NJ Clemenceau. as stated.
who because OF his reputation as q
cabinet breaker" was said to have
broken the Caillaux cabinet. II was
broken by the sheer weight Of NJ
Caillaux himself.
The scene in the lobby Of the senate
in which NM do Selves. Caiilaux and
Clemenceau are represented as indulg-
ing In recriminations was a mere in
cideat. NJ. Caillaux's fall WAS already
certain. It was a foregone conclusion
in the mind and mouth OF the public
as well as the chamber. 1t was certain
that the French premier had under
taken secret negotiations with Ger
many without the knowledge OF the
president and his cabinet. and also
without their knowledge he had as
sumed to threaten the King of Spain.
The information had been commune
Gated both from London and Madrid.
and explained much that was mex
IL u t. ~ ~ t;vSrr q
Berlin.
The selection OF NJ. Raymond Poin-
care is q new departure. a parting OF Il e
ways in which the government OF the re-
public separates itself finally. it is to be
hoped, from future alliances with parties
that eat each other and ministers who
kill each other"
Nj. Poincare is the first president of the
council who is q member Of the French
Academy since the
Premier Not Duo de Broglie. who
filled the Office in
a Politician. 1873. M. poincare is
not a politician and has nothing in com
mon with men Of the type Of Monis.
Combes or Caillaux. He is q statesman
who long ago placed himself high above
small personal interests. and in the pres
ent grave situation he has surrounded
himself not with the representatives of
such and such groups in the chamber. but
with men Of eminence in whom the coun-
try has entire confidence. Never has
q cabinet been so favorably welcomed by
public and press.
M. Poincare, in addition to the presi-
dency of the council. takes the portfolio
Of foreign affairs: NJ. Aristide BRAND,
justice; M. Leon Bourgeois. labor; Alex
andre Millerand, war; Theophi.e De-
casse. marine; NJ. Louis Klotz. finance:
NJ. Steeg. interior; M. Jean Dupuy, public
works; M. Pans. agriculture; NJ Francois
Lebrun, colonies; M. Guist'hau, public In
struction; M. Fernand David, commerce.
NM. Poincare and Dupuy belong to the
republican union; NM. Bourgeois and
Pans. the democratic left: NM. Steeg.
Klotz and Guist'hau, radical socialist;
NM Delcasse and David. radical left. M.
MiIlerand was the first socialist to accept
a portfolio in the Waldeck-Rousseau cab
met; he is now republican socialist: M.
Lebrun is classed with the democratic
left: NJ. BRAND does not belong to any
group.
The irreconcilable opposition OF NJ.
Clemenceau to the ratification of the
Franco-German treaty has precIuded his
being considered for any place In the
cabinet.
NJ Poincare is senator from the Mouse
ana CNdlIu1An Oh lu0 senate cOuIulIlce
charged with the study and report on
the Franco-German treaty: He is Lor-
rain by origin. and familiar not only
with the treaty. but with the Germans
also. 1t is said of him in the press: ''He
will be Arm without arrogance and con-
ciliatory without weakness: he Will de-
fend the interests OF France without ex-
aggeration, but with absolute confidence
in the military, and naval forces of the
country; he will do, in a word, what NJ.
Caillaux should have done"
On the 10th instant the ministerial dec
laration was read in the chamber by
Premier Poincare and in the senate by
Minister of Justice BRAND, and was re-
ceived with marked appreciation.
x i;
The declaration insisted. first of all,
upon Frances fidelity to her alliances:
the ratification of the
Ministry's Franco-German agree
r,. ment and the negotia-
0cc1dIatlVn. ton OF a just accord
with Spain with the view of the prompt
organization of the protectorate over Mo-
rocco: the maintenance of the rights and
obligations of public functionaries Iii the
reform Of the electoral laws in the matter
of proportional representation, and the
development Of the workman's pension
scheme. among many other propositions
the strengthening OF the army and navy
is given special emphasis. THE army
and the navy must remain the sacred
defenders Of the republic and the father
land"
In a word, the Poincare ministry marks
an epoch in the life OF the republic. be-
cause II starts out with the courage OF Its
proper force and the respect and esteem
Of all patriots without regard to party.
The journal disc Debats. organ essen
tally conservative. may be cited to show
the drift of sentiment toward stronger
republic: -
the extent of which had become ma
tional danger he (Caillaux) does not yet
seem to understand why he ought for
ever to disappear from the political
scene The regrets expressed by the Ber-
lin and Vienna press are easily under,
stood: but for France his fall is the END
OF a nightmare"
The Eclair Of Paris writes:
1.-THE incidents which have brought
about the resignation Of NJ. de Selves
show the organized anarchy which Is the
sore Of the republic and the perpetual
scourge of our exterior action.
II NJ. Judet were asked to explain .ne
Organized anarchy" OF which he COM
plains he would tell his interlocutor that
it was cause that France abandoned ner
interests in Egypt in 1882, and that lts
hand may be seen again In the recent
investigations which have not yet been
cleared up.
LAction says shat 1.-The actual crisis Is
due to personal conflicts The commas
sion charged with the examination OF the