| Show FRANCE UNDER ONCE ONCE HATED CAILLAUX HEADED TOWARD COOPERATION His Return to Power Assigned Widespread to Belief He Is Finance Wizard and and and Can l Save Nation From Troubles fly BY 1 WILLIAM RInD nIno c ll J Dc t J to The Stand Stand- Standard aril I ard I CopyrIght 1925 1025 by The Consoli- Consoli Consolidated dated Press Prea Bird noted corre corre- correspondent correspondent correspondent who 1 I is home on from his Paris headquarters ex explains eX- eX eXplain plains plain In today's despatch thereal the thc thereal real facts behind Frances France's tangled political situation He ays FranceIs FrAnce FrAnceIs Is 1 headed for operation co-operation with Germany under once hooted as a traitor WASHINGTON April 18 ministry in France Is illio tub expected transition cabinet which doubtless will be e succeeded by a 0 government nt headed by Jo- Jo Joseph Jo seph Caillaux now finance min min- minIster mm min minister ister whose major policy policy Is well known knon to be operation co with Germany who has been hooted In the streets of ot Paris as s a traitor and who was convicted during the war ar of ot traffic with the enemy nemy and sentenced to Ian ban banIshment ban banishment from Paris anti and from French official life Is la almost a fabulous lIe He Is the theauthor author a of ot the tho French Income tax and widely regarded even en by his bitterest enemies as a financial wizard This legend Is mainly responsible tor for his return to of- of of ot office fide fice Thousands Jot of of Frenchmen who would to shake his hand and who ho would leav leave a room It If he be entered it will re- re reluCtantly re reluctantly admit that he ho has no pP peer r a as a financier I SECOND U Paul t on the other hand although an eminent ma- ma mathematician mathematician ma mathematician Is regarded politically politically politically cally as a second rater He lIe too has been ben the object of f violent controversy Premier tor for a short time during the war he Is held by some to have been responsible for the disastrous Nivelle offen otEen- offensive she sive In 1917 which sent thousands of ot the best French to slaughter He lie was a 8 transition premier then it lr Ir a II r ime of mill mili military tary tary crisis He lie 1 le chosen for an equally ungrateful ta task k today In a moment of ot financial perIl l IU SOX ron FOR ChOICE The selection of to whom the post was offered a week ago but bur who refused to take It until the wily Briand had tried and failed to form torm a JOV- JOV government cov has two motives to provide a 0 premier who It Is will be easily dominated by the two strong men In the abinet Briand and Caillaux and secondly to get rid of ot M f Pain Pain- leve lee as president of ot the chamber ot or deputies In which position hohas he has ha caused the Left bloc no end endor ot or embarrassment Because of ot his strong partisanship and tempera tempera- temperamental temperamental temperamental mental to be a presiding o the chamber durin during the I past year ear has been almost can can- c o- o a scene ne of ot Indescribable l confusion and this has done much to tf discredit the Radical and So Socialist So- So SocialIst majority in the eyes ees ot of I th the country The writer has observed dur dur- during ing Ini his present visit to the United Stat Staten I a wide misunderstanding ot of the party pari lineups In France and today's references from Paris f of t n II iuchi ich parliamentary groups as Socialist Republican Republican- Socialist t etc may add to hh hl hi I contusion confusion The word Socialist In such auch combinations has virtually no nom m It was adopted 1 oa as a I vote getting label by by- these parties years year ago o at a time when all France was dabbling In Socialism I allI There are arl only two really SO So parties the Unified ed So Socialists commonly called simply sim ply Socialists and the Communists I who adhere to the Moscow Inter Inter- nationale and always vote against I everything e The other parties A who tack the word on onto o their names are arc what we in America should scribe describe as liberals or progressives progressives or Jeffersonian Democrats Therefore whatever the they may call themselves the tile members member ot of cabinet art are none of them Item real Socialists nor were any ot of ministers did however the have support ot of the Socialist party parly which decided In a part party convention to his government rather than see seethe seethe seethe the Left bloc broken up and the reins of ot I power ower pass to the tho center or the right In rot return urn for tor this support they demanded that tier Her Herriot riot ller-riot riot apply certain articles of ot their program notably the levy ley on cap cap- cap capital hal ital which brought about Her Her- Herriot lier riot downfall The real significance of ot Call Call- laux's Cail-laux's return turn to power In France FranceIs Is not merely his hit personal vindi vindi- vindication vindication vindication cation but hut the growing gro throughout France that the cur cur- cat Bur est eat guarantee of French safety lies in closer commercial relations with Germany The charge upon w which Caillaux was convicted for traffic with the du during ring the war was based on his well known opinion that hat France and Germany should be friends md and andI I allies and that war between I them no matter who won could only result In weakening both to the advantage of ot England BY collaborating he believes both France and German Germany will gain Ultimately by the down clown ot of customs barriers and other artificial restraints on trade they lacy I would become a powerful co co unit on a par with Eng Ing- Ingland Eng Eng- England England land on the one hand band and Amu- Amu ilea lea ica on the other But it if they AmuI re- re remain re I main divided and hostile M 01 Call Call- laux holds that a 8 recurrence ot of 1 war and mutual destruction Is the only possible outcome possible outcome M Caillaux's view that the nar narrow nar- nar narrow nar-J nar row policies of ot Poincare wen In great part responsible for the thelast thelast thelast last war Is hi his one ono stron strong tie with the Socialists and it if the government obtains So- So Socialist So Socialist support it It will be largelY for tor this reason But Dut even e this will not hold the Socialists In line unless the he new government throws them them IL a a sop In the form torm of ot concessions to the Socialist platform The Socialists are primarily afraid of ot Communist let 1st taunts which already nave caused thousands of ot French work work- workmen workmen men to desert the Socialist pal palt t in favor of ot the tho Communists who refuse steadfastly to support any government that Is not simon pure Altogether the prospects of or the tho new cabinet are not bright I |
