President Doumergue is known to have expressed "himself very forcibly to M. Painlevé about the folly of keeping Gen, Sarrail in Syria, and M. Briand ig said to hai threatened to resign if Sarrail were not removed. But how is it to be done? Gen, Sarrail is what one of iekens's characters called a bitrary gent" and is looked upon as quite capable of arresting and imprisoning any successor who may be sent out from France, Nothing less than a Marshal of France ving in a battleship would 3 shown his contempt for his Likely. to impress Gen, Sarrail, who own friends by keeping them' completely in the dark as to what was going on in Syria, merely mentioning serve fighting' casually in post scripts. The situation would be comical if it were not so serious, Decorative Arts Exhibition ministry from which M. Caillaux would be- excluded. M. Caillaux is thus rejected by the very! men who six months ago hai ed him as the only member of thei party who could put the national ances into something like order. In sacrificing him they have in reality done him a good turn, as he, is now recorded ax an uncompro:
ising opponent of the march, towards State Socialism and Com-, munism. He is not the kind of man to turn' the other cheek to the smiter, and he will be a thorn in, the side of the new Government when its proposals come before the Senate, of which he is & member.
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