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Show FRENCH PARTY STRIFE STIRRED ITardieu Looks For General Election to Clarify Atmosphere. H A.VDRF T.RDIP:i . former Prcnch High OonunissJoncr to the United Btatm PARIS, Oct. 28. The electoral campaign cam-paign precipitated by the reslRnatlon of former l'remior Lloyd Gpotko. adds to the uncertainty In ESurope. Slmul-taheousl Slmul-taheousl the debate In iin- French chamber on the general pullr of thf rovernrn. nt has stirred up the party strlfe In France. Ji'splto the Imml inence of the Lausanne conference, and another trip ol the reparations commission to Reriln, domestic affairs hold sway every w.he,ro. The English parties have reawakened reawak-ened to what It means to reject the ooalitlon which kept Lloyd George in power so many years. Vet they also reaflze that to get along without n coalition an actual party majority is ip i essary and there s no Indication that any party will fret 11 at the eom- Ing election indeed already there, are .Igns of a rapproachment b twoen the lndepi ndent Liberals under As-ciulth As-ciulth and the Conservatives under Bonar law.. Lloyd George seeks to form a new party from the elements that arc dissatisfied with all of the others, This requires 'time and as the lections approach th i-ampalgu consists con-sists largely of personal attacUs and replies. SOME Dil l K DI1 V LOOMS To Imagine that Great Britain's foreign policy will be changed by the coming election is folly Bonar Law, like Lloyd George, will declare In la-vor la-vor of the Franco-British entente but will facu the same difficulty of making mak-ing th1 French and Britihs views coln-eidi coln-eidi on Hach point. Bonar Law's recent re-cent b uer concerning the N". n r K intent int-ent iruestion shows the difficulty to be as greal tor the now ministry as for tho old All that can happen is that the Internal strife will so occupy public pub-lic attention that international rivalries rival-ries will get a rest and become less acuie. i;ut after the election the foreign for-eign problems mus be me. By a curious cur-ious coincidence at the very moment the Dngllsh Conservatives were revolting re-volting against the coalition the French Cli'iin ndat party, through Georges Mnndel, was protesting in the ihamber against the French party confusion. France's existing parliamentarian parlia-mentarian situation doubtle-s i al-iimt al-iimt ineipiiiprehenslhle to foreigners so l will tr to explain it. ri ilSIS! liXCE I.I VRDED In t'9'19 the voters inflicted a crushing crush-ing defeat to the so-called left bloc which had governed from 190 to 190 with t'alllaux as the chief personage and elected .1 Liberal Republican majority ma-jority That majority ever since h is been incapable of safeguarding its vic tory and every cabinet has incUiaeu 1 1 present a t i es t .1 the conquered part The Clemen -bt paitj constantly has opposed, the mixtures of parties In PQJwcr and in th chamber This per-Blsl&rroe per-Blsl&rroe a1 last seems to be commencing commenc-ing to bear fruit. List January, when forming his cabinet Raymond Foin-care Foin-care following Millerand s example, sought the sujport of Harriot and Doumcrgue, the leaders of the Cail-laux Cail-laux p n t an.i while the majority paa-slvejy paa-slvejy let this pass at the time, now it Is very strongly criticised. Like the British Conservatives the French republicans desire a government govern-ment formed from among themselves and which will apply their policies which aspiration seeins perfectly legitimate legi-timate since they have the majority it probably will take some time for this state of mind to be crystalizrd Into In-to acts. But this time can be counted by months, possibly by weeks. My predictions of September 1021 came true in .January 11122 and 1 wi not Ix surprised if the same thing happens again In short. France, like England Is tending to clarify her domestic do-mestic policies and If this should extend ex-tend to the foreign policies then eo much the better. |