Camille Renault, a member of the Paris Municipal Council, who was elected as a "Red" and has since become a "dissident." Ho pat in appearance at the Hotel de Ville ihe aes SAY a yea are foe tulated on his "release." A' Friend remarked on the charms of freedom, and Bf. Renault replied ho' had always been of that jon. The friend then asked if fo was really very trying to' hear Reset had not been in nat all, "It was like this," Fe explained, "I got. 13 months!
prisonment as responsible manag-to call attention to myself, I just. kept quiet. I have paid about Frs. 10,000 in fines, and that is quite sufficient to entitle me to a Cot munist martyr's crown, I conside Renault is none the less. pleased to think that his sentence is wiped. out and that he is no longer in danger of being shut up in a central-heated cell. He has a sparkling eye and red chocks, and jokes freely about his little encounter with the law; in' short, he quite a cheerful person. One of his duties as a municipal counci lor was to draw up the report on the administration of the funeral monopoly!
The Public Bored M. Dandet's* return to Paris, yesterday attracted little attention, apart from the tumultuous recep-ion which is political friends, as in duty bound, arranged for him at the Northern Railway terminus. The Parisians of to-day are unlike their fathers, who could work themselves up into a state of frantic excitement over General Boulanger and Henri Rochefort. To use a familiar expression, Paris are "fed up"
he old style of trying to lic opinion by means of processions and distuxeances and fights is out of date, When a few Communists, [for instance, begin to shout, the passers-by merely look on wonder ingly, and ask one another what the trouble is about, and they comment on the futility of adding to the trafic difficulties.
Their indifference is probably due to general disbelief'in the sincerity of political agitation and also to a feeling that they no time to waste on other peoples' grievances. The Dreyfus case, followed by the war, and now the high cost of living have combined to reduce their emotional capacity for public affairs. They read with amusement the other day about a youthful Communist wh when the pocket.
"Les Miserables" and the boy-politician Gavroche appear like lereations of a by-gone age, The New Premier M. Tardieu, who has made an excellent start as Premier and bids. fair to become an "indispensable of the Poincaré type, has added to his popularity by appel ing General Weygand to be chief of the Army General Staff in ssu: cession to General Debeney. This nomination has given confidence to all military men, General Weygand, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the cavalry in 1914, was Foch's right-hand "man throughout the war, knew his inmost thoughts and is the one man able to continue traditions of thoroughness, Foch's great principle was to get at the root of things. He used to retire within himself and turn a problem over and over in his mind until he found a solution that satisfied him. When he ape pointed by Clemenceau to the post, Of professor at the School of War, he withdrew to his country house: in Brittany and remained quite alone for about ten di had decided what sary to impress upon the future leaders of the army. He believed in preparation rather than ins pit tion, in which respect he was a follower of Napoleon; and General Weygand can be trusted to tread the same path. His new appoint. ment marks him out as the suc cessor of Marshal Petain, who in all probability will retire from the post of vice-president of the Supreme War Council, which automatically becomes that of commander-in-chief in time of war, at. the end of the present year.
General Gamelin, another very able officer in whom Foch had great confidence, becomes assistant chief} of staff.' The French Army will thus be Foch traditions and training, just fas the French forees at the beginning of the past century were imhued with the spirit of Napoleon, Extraterritoriality A day or two after the publica. tion in Europe of the Nanking cree purporting to abolish the extraterritorial system) with a ko of the pen, the Chinese Minister, Mr. Kao-Lu, called at the Quai d'Orsay. Instead of confirm-the announcement, he merely whether the attitude'of the French Government towards the question remained sympathetic, He was told that it was, but that the Process must be gradual and be accompanied by proper guarantees for the.protection of the lives and interests of French citizens in Chin:
M. Briand is the Inst person to be taken in by the claims of the Nanking politicians to speak for the whole of China,-and, if he had any illusions, they would speedily be removed by the remarks of the Bishop of Ningpo, Mer. Dofévre, who has just returned home. He said that the protection given to foreign missions by the Berthemy-Gerard convention had already been with: drawn in practice, in spite of the French Government's objections, and this, no: doubt, was only. a prelude to more arbitrary measures, 'The abolition' of extraterritoriality would most certainly lead to a period of difficulties the- consequences of which it would be impossible to estimate, The sions would find: themselves fre-conflict with the local whose ideas of administering justice varied according to localities, being good in some. bluees and bad in others. The missions would no longer be able to appeal to the representatives of foreign Powers, and would be at the merey of Chinese officials, who already regarded them with not too friendly an eye. it is not so, long. since several missionaries wore captured by Communist soldiers, and the mission had to pay a ransom of $10,000 to obtain their release. If the Powers agree to what Nanking wants, there will be nothing to prevent foreign missionaries from. being expelled wholesale,
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