Evening star., 1925-04-12
History.

| increasingly alarming condition of
| French finances. the Socialist govern
ment of Premier Herriot was unseated
| Friday evening after 10 months in
| the saddle. The overthrow came when
Herrfot asked for and failed to receive
a vote of confidence from the French
Senate, and his opponents rode to
victory behind former Premier Poin-
| care. Had NJ. Herriot received the
| vote of confidence, he would have at
tempted to put through his plan for a
voluntary levy by the government of
| 10 per cent of the wealth of France
as means of extracting his govern
ment from the financial crisis to-
| ward which it steadily has been drift
ing since the World War. President
Doumergue, of France, has asked NJ.
Herriot TO retain the premiership
until he can select a new ministry
and this, as is customary, NJ Herriot
has consented to do.
The motion of confidence was de-
feated by vote of 156 TO 1874. 1t was
| the third time in French parliamentary
| history that a government has been
overthrown by a vote of the Senate.
| Usually. it is the House of Deputies
| which brings about the change
| The final vote came after nearly a
week of high strung debate in the
| French Senate over the financial
| policies of the Herriot government.
| During the debate Herriot was charged
] with bringing about an initiation of the
| currency over the legal limits, and
with accepting foreign loans which
assisted in bringing about the present
| serious condition. He defended his
! action and traced the slow economic
illness of France down through the
administrations which have held the
relgns OF power since the war.
Herriot always, as have those who
preceded him, claimed that France
would pay her debts to this country
when she could but denied that It
was possible now. The United States
Government has maintained a sympa-
| thetic attitude throughout the strug-
giles which have marked Frances eff
fort at economic recovery. although
| there has not been, and none is likely
! any intimation that there would be a
change in this Governments policy
| that what has been loaned should be
repaid. The attitude of the govern
| ment which succeeds NJ. Herriots WILL
| therefore, be watched with interest
Replying to the Peruvian note pro-
testing the award in the Tacna-Arica
controversy, President Coolidge last
week informed Peru that ne regards
his decision as final and without ap-
the terms of submission signed by
the two governments and also with
the general principles Of interna tional
law.
Paths of Glory Lead Karl
Radek, former leader of the German
Communist party and who is credited
with having exercised an influence in
the Bolshevik world second only to
dnnngad Trnf nfSly
destined to follow Trotsky into po-
litical oblivion, according to dis
patches last week from Moscow,
which stated that he had been Sc
Verely censored by the all-powerful
central controlling power of the Com
munist party for his activities in stir
ring up factional troubles within the
German. Communist party. He was
threatened with dismissal from the
Russian communist party.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg was
nominated last week for President of
the Germany Republic by the Ma
al-Conservative Bourgeois bloc,
which selected him as their candidate,
despite his age of so years, and over
the protest of the general himself,
who declared he was too old to un-
dertake the gruelling campaign which
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cellor Wilhelm Marx, the socialist, in
the elections of April &c.
The Most Rev. DR.. Tikhon, former
patriarch of all Russia, at one time
archbishop of New York and head of
the Russian Church in America, and
the center of bitter religious con-
troversy in Russia, died last week in
a private hospital of Moscow. When
h nov
enthroned as the head of the Russian
Church, he was considered a pro-
gressive, but his activities against
the Bolsheviks led to his abdication
as patriarch. The Soviet announce
ment OF his abdication, however, was
contra dicted by church authorities
who declared his resignation was i'm
possible under church laws. Later he
was arrested and threatened with
trial for his condemnation of the
Soviet in its seizure and confiscation
of church treasure. Later still, efforts
to prosecute him were withdrawn by
the Soviet, and the patriarch devoted
the remainder Of his life toward at
tempting a reconciliation between the
Orthodox Church and the Living
Church" organized by the Formists.
The League of Nations conference
for the control of International traffic
in arms will open in Geneva next
week. The United States is sending
two delegates. Mexico and Russia
are not expected to. be represented,
the formers hesitancy being traced
to the failure of the peace confer
ence to invite her to join the
league.
The Saratoga, sixth of her name
Il y,
launched at Camden, n. J., last week
to take her place in the American
Navy as perhaps the latest develop
ment in that strange type of modern
war vessel, the airplane carrier. Sne
will carry 72 planes, 81 of which will
be of the bombing type, the others to
he pursuit planes. The ship cost
s45, 100000. She has the most pow
| erful motors on any ship in the world
and her electrical equipment would
furnish light for a city twice the size
of Washington.
The first Saratoga was built in
1880. She was a small vessel and
| took a prominent part in early naval
engagements, although her fate is a
naval mystery and it Is supposed she
foundered somewhere off the Middl e
Atlantic coast with all hands aboard.
The second Saratoga was built dur
ing the war of 1872, the third was
built in 1912 and served her country
for many years, the fourth is the
armored cruiser Rochester, which was
christened under the name of the
Saratoga, and the fifth is the Genesee,
an auxiliary naval craft which also,
at one time, bore the name of the
Saratoga Secretary Wilbur spoke
at the christening exercises and Mrs.
Wilbur christened the vessel, break
ing a bottle of mineral water over