| Show London F Fears ears Poincare Baldwin In Has Has- Taken TARDIEU SEES GRAVE TREND IN COUNTRIES Popularity of Constitutional Constitutional Constitutional Government Be- Be Believed Believed Be Believed Waning By BT ANDRE 1 T T Former Fonner fligh to the lie United States Cable lo to The Standard Standard- Stan ard- ard r COP right 1923 PARIS Sept 22 The The has added to the tho series of ot troubles that hae agitated the old world orld for forthe fortha the tho last the five h e 1 furnishes one moro more proof th thit t reigns as the dominant 10 rower 01 Its It It modern use uso in civil affairs be- be be-bai be bai in Russi where under the of ot communism Lenine and thelt their followers organ organ- organIzed organized organized a II dictatorship surpassing all allIn allin allin In and brutality Next came caine which in less than four vear ear car overthrew two governments Bulgaria followed with Ith tho the over over- overthrow overthrow overthrow throw of Chief Czar Ferdinand by bytho bytho bythe tho p peasant of ilio ho himself was as 0 overthrown assassin assassin- assassinated assassinated and dismembered ITALY LY iS JS In Italy a army marched on Rome imposed Its conditions on the king and took over the gov- gov government government gov government which Its Ita leader has ex- ex exercised exercised ex exercised authority Finally Spain comes on the c no a with ith Prim Primo De Ue Riv Ris eras era's coup d a t ett by which tho Spanish cham chain chamber chamber ber her is dissolved ind and guarantees are aro suspended d One One might add Germany Ith aith Its Kapp Putsch its chief Saxon communism and Its Ita Bavarian na- na nationalism na nationalism giving no 10 particular spec spec- spec tacio of ot v There is a mill ked re among those mover Thero is dis- dis disdainful disdainful dis disdainful abandonment and constitutional forms the nine nine- nineteenth nineteenth century considered as an expression of or Jt highest political pro pro- progress pro progress gre gress s The SO Soviet let began an by overthrow overthrow- overthrowIng overthrow overthrow-in Ing the constituent assembly Its members Tho The Grees and Bulgarians took almost un- un unheard unheard un unheard heard of ot liberties with the elec- elec elections elec elections Mussolini retained the Ital- Ital ItalIan ItalIan Ital Italian ian chamber of o deputies but only aft r Its had been given tho lr choice of 01 disappearing disappearing Primo Prime De Be Hh era did didaway didaway away with aith both ch and con con- constitution con constitution Ev Even n In the Cl that still faithful to o these Institutions institutions Institutions the Italian and Spanish coups provoked none 01 of the emotion the they would ba have e 30 years y farS cra ago Bit 8 1 TO 10 SlID Iho I ho Immediate re reason reson son for this state of mind Is In fn m many coun coun- countries coun- coun countries countries tries the m nt mt-nt nt is decadent both as regards men and methods n old stenographer in the Reich Reich- Reichstag stag SUII told me ten years before the orld war nar that he had seen every since the founding of th lh empire and anol they had con con- constantly constantly lessened i ii I Intellectuality ani productivity rule originally ass as the creation of ot the middle class These countries Ic te which it hall hai ha failed are tho the countries wh h l One Une which lack a middle mi die class Ono One con ludes that t th do weakness ot of parliamentary Is sy- sy synon sy synonymous non mou with Ith weakness of the middle cl class ss la J this phenomenon to become Lecome general It Is la difficult to Judge No doubt there exists even In ia laFrance a II certain detachment 1 ro- ro re regarding 1 garding the present regime I be- be be lle a however ho th- th t II a a military op- op op like the recent one ono In Spain would ba bo absolutely ly impossible hero heN With England fc vc C are the thE- th cradle of parliamentary Institutions and va when we recognize that they do not work well weli some secret In- In InstInct In Instinct warns name us ua u tho that t experimentS experimentS- is costly Thero There i Is no d mot that in a large part of Europe th the ha political tot laa mu- mu mulas las of or the century base hae been utterly routed Touted Will the tho t centry brIng now new formu formu- formulas formulas las that will last last I do not know But It is clear that it if the parlia parlia- parliamentary parliamentary parliamentary system s c to last it must amended be e reformed an |
