June 14, Tue circumstances in which President Millerand has resigned office are so extraordinary as almost to justify the word revolution. "Other Presidents have resigned from personal Gissatisfaction with their poaiion—M. Casimir Périer for instance, during the stormy days of the Dreyfus affair. But history, affords no precedent for the head of the State being literally, forced out of office by a strike in parliament and it is a most dangerous one to have establish ed. As the ex-President said in the message read to the Chamber of Deputies on Juno 10, it is an utterly unconstitutional' proceeding "which makes the President a plaything in the hands of the majority in Parliament." -The ease with which Governments are overthrown has often been regretted as a weakness of. French political life. If now it wust be added that Presidents are to be pushed in and out of office as easily as Premiers, the resulting instability of French policy both at home and aprond cannot but tend to be most dis-
To be just, we have yet to hear the Socialist side of the
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