It was not, however, at all to the taste of the majority in the French Parliament, who, observing that the recolution had the support of two members of the French Government, naturally wanted to know whether this implied any de parture from the attitude hitherto adopted by M. Viviani and his colleagues in regard to the war.
'A question was accordingly put to M. Viviani, and it seemed as if he would either have to disavow his two colleagues or disappoint his putriotie supporters. He escaped from the dilemma with remarkable skill. Beginning by saying that the ques would give him an opportunity of clearing the ground, he proceeded to make an impassioned declaration on the general situation.
The members of the Government, he said, were unanimous in the belief that the responsibility for present events lay with the enemies of the Triple Entente, which had moeely followed, and had not in-tinted, the increate in armaments The Triple Entente had strive time after time for peace, but found itself confronted by a premeditation which had been rendered clear as daylight by the publication of documentary evidence. The Gov. ernment would carry on the war untiringly to the end with the help of its allies, and would continue it up to the moral liberation of
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