Mr. Poincaré and Mr. Millerand

The elections in France have not only already effectively brought down Poincaré, but inevitably bring about the resignation of President Millerand himself.

The Left press quite rightly writes that if the President did not maintain, in the struggle between the two sides, the impartiality that his high office demands, but on the contrary came out resolutely on the side of the "National Bloc," then he must feel on himself all the consequences of his side's defeat… To compel the President to resign, the Left is to employ the following tactics: all the Left's candidates to whom Mr. Millerand offers, under certain conditions, the formation of a cabinet will resolutely reject those conditions…

In this way Mr. Millerand will have to leave the stage, just as Mr. Poincaré did…