South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-04
POINCARE Is BRUNT
OF POLITICAL WAR
Nitriol Flows Freely in Bitter
Fight For Control of Gov
eminent Of France.
BY FRANK = MASON.

o. n. = SiaH Corr spoudent-l
PARIS Aug Q Fundamental
economic differences. personal hat
reds. dramatic clashes between
points Of view utterly lrreconclla liable.
outcrOppIngs OF autagcnlsm that
were necessarily silenced during the
war. bitter vituperattOu. scenes OF
wild enthusiasm IN the Chamber OF
Deputies. alternating with denuncia-
tory speeches equally Iatin-Eo 70
make MP an impress onistlc picture
Of the political fghf nov being
waged for ard against the present
administration in France.
on the one hand is the admins
tra.ion ltseIe-or Government" as
they cali &c i'm EWope-headed by
the premier. Raymond Polncare.
ard backed bv substantial but
varying majority in the chamber.
ON the other hand are the oppo-
sition parties--the Left" their ex-
treme views expressed by the com
munists and their bitter hatred Of
Poincare recently eliminating IN a
dramatic accusation that he and
his followers We're responsible for
the outbreaks OF The war in 1914.
POincare = .'TamDOoncd"
NitrioIic are he lamroons launch
Cd against Monsieur Polncare in
this campaign 10y the communist
leaders on the floor OF the chamber
and in The columns OF their morning
daily. THumanite. and their after
noon newspaper TInternationale
n premier is sOubriqueted
"POlncare Ia Guerre. implying
that he was OF the war. part ard
parcel-in other words. the cause
OF IL often he e. Ironically dubbed
king Of France"
Accusation Is made by the com
munists that Polncare. during his
presidency ar the time the war
started entered into underhanded
dealings with the Russian govern
ment and that he forced the war TO
protect certain interests in Russia
Charge is also made that Poincare
displayed cOwardice i'm 1914 when
ne LEFT Paris. taking the govern
ment with him.
Poincare has not been idle
against these attacks His first
move was counter offensive. He
has laid before the chamber a
project 10 deprive Deputies Mar
Gel Cachin and VaiHant-Coutu-
rier Of their parliamentary immu-
nitv This would mean that these
two communists would be subject
TO trial i'm the French courts. and
NJ Poincare has promised TO see
that they Will be prosecuted The
charges viii he unpatriotic beha-
vior. or something similar.
Premier Temporarily Thwarted.
This ATTEMPT OF the premier and
his followers 10 curb the rough
tongued radicals was thwarted. at
least temporarily. Claim had been
made that the two communist lead
ers had published an editorial lead
or" IN one or thtir Journals libel
ouslv attacking Poincare and insult
ing the F-onch goS"rnment. II was
uud erstood that the prosecution OF
Cachin and Vaillant-Couturier was
90 be based upon this article signed
by he two.
had been made THumanite ap-
nRAFe0 WIN reprint VI NiA
article. tt was signed with several
dozen rames many O. them infu-
entail Ia aor leaders
To continue action against the
two deputies 1T that time would
have meant 'akins action against
every one OF tho men who signed
the artjsle' Fer the time Poincare
was blocked. But official circles in
innate mat tho attack on the par
Iliameutarv immunity Of Cachin and
valiant -Couturier will be fought
out regardless.
Premier PLAYS Trump.
Meanwhile n @ premier n a s
PLAYED another trump card His op-
portunitv came thrcuen the trlfing
matte q picture rCstal.
Cachiu and Naillant-Couturier
had seized upon the postal card.
which portrayed Tculcare and Ny
ron r. Hcrrick. United States Am
bassador 20 France. at the cere-
mony OF presentation Of the United