Evening star., 1925-11-08
BY HENRY W. BUM.

" HE following is a brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended Novem
ber z:
France.-M. Painleve appeared be
| fore the Chamber with his new cabi
net on Tuesday. He had hoped to Con
solidate his position by persuading the
| Unified Socialists to participate in the
government, and he offered portfolios
| to Leon Blum, their leader, and Paul
Boncour, but the Unified Socialists de-
cided to continue the selfish attitude
| they maintained toward Herriot and
| toward Painleve during his admins
| tration just concluded. They are a
minority in the Left coalition QOs
seats), but their votes are necessary
to maintenance of a Left government.
They have made the lives of the Her.
riot and Painleve governments uneasy
and precarious by the constant threat
of withdrawing their support. They
tragically handicapped the govern
ment in the earlier stages of the Mo-
roccan war, and their insistence on a
capital levy, pure and simple, has des-
perately delayed and prejudiced a
fiscal solution.
In his ministerial declaration Pain
leve asserted that his government
must be one "of immediate realiza-
ton" 1t must find a satisfactory So
luton for the fiscal embarrassments,
must procure ratification OF the Lo-
carno instruments, must clean up the
| Syrian mess, must make the neces-
sary plans for Morocco, and must Wig.
orously resume negotiations toward
settlement of the foreign debts. The
of
| to a IT. Precise plans for stabiliza-
| ton of the franc would be presented
later. For the present Patnleve could
| only say that his program would call
for national, immediate and excep-
tional sacrifices from all forms OF
wealth" whereby a sinking fund
should be created adequate for meet.
ing all maturing obligations-an "au-
tonomous' fund. Independent OF the
government. He was reticent con-
cerning Morocco and Syria. 1t is UP
to the Riffians, he said. They have
been offered a quite sufficient auton-
omy within the easy restrictions i'm
posed by existig treaties, whereof
France is only one of several sigma.
tories. A thorough investigation OF
the Syrian business was afoot, and
Parliament would be duly apprtsed
| of it's results. The government would
address itself to reorganization OF the
army on such a plan as to make a
one-vear term of service possible.
OF 5s4 Deputies, 221 voted for the
ministerial declaration, 189 against 1t
while 100 Unified Socialists and "a
other Deputies of sundry affiliations
abstained. The petty majority of 81
! is seen to be precarious and unnat
ural. being obtained only through the
temporary support of 80 Nationalists
| .in the national interest" The alb
! stention of the Unified Socialists is de-
clared by many to signify the death
| of the Left bloc, but such an announce
ment has been made on several pre-
| yious occasions and discovered to be
exaggerative.
Thursday the franc fell on New
York Exchange to 3.S8 cents-beloW
the Ira 1892 cents), which has been
| steady of late. The franc has lost
more than half a cent within a fort
night.
AS should be expected, the Syrian
turmoil has considerably increased by
| reason Of the Damascus affair. Ap
| parently considerable French rein
! forcements have been rushed to Syria
The French official report of the
Damascus business presents far lower
| figures of losses and injuries In life
and property than those of unoficia
| accounts. These official figures are
! lrough1N. as follows: Troops undo,