Mar. 7.
With the exception of "Lo Petit Journal," which claims that it foresaw that M. Briand would stumble over the unpopular payments tax, the morning newspapers confess that the crisis took France and the world by surprise.
Its dramatic suddenness has succeeded in forcing the Geneva meeting to the background as the topic of comment, though misgiving is felt that France's ease at Geneva will lose much of its strength now that M. Briand has gone and consequently Poland's chances of securing a° permanent seat on the
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