The new president of the French Senate

De Selves has been elected President of the French Senate in place of Doumergue, who was elected President of the Republic. In a certain sense the choice of de Selves limits the victory of the Left. One may think that the Senate, under its new president, will set much narrower bounds to the political amnesty planned by Herriot, excluding from it those convicted "of treason against the state": the well-known Germanophile Caillaux and others. It was de Selves who once, during the war, together with Clemenceau and Poincaré, brought about the exposure of the whole "treason"…