The opinion is generally express-that M. Briand will remain For-ign Minister and that his resignajwalify him from negotiating an amicable solution of the problems y's entry into the League of Nations.
The two names most canvassed for the Premiership are those of M. Caillaux and M. Péret Raoul President of the Chamber.
It is alleged that M. Caillaux is prepared to form a Cabinet, that he has a list of ministers in his pocket, but the real difficulty is not to find a Premier but to find a majority in the Chamber. No stable Left majority is obtainable without the Radicals, who, like the Socialists, have seceded from the Left bloc but whose party doctrines do not incline them to coalesce with the Right.
Meanwhile dissolution of the Chamber looms in the back ground as a last resort, but the delay involved by a general election would be most detrimental to France's financial position.
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