Feb.
M. Gaston Doumergue, at the head of a National Cabinet, is charged with the task of solving the serious crisis in France. The nificance of the conflagration which M. Daladier's popularty has been burnt to ashes in a few hours receives different interpretations. In Berlin. not unnaturally, there is a disposition to perceive and to lay special stress on popular di satisfaction with parliamentariganism. Berlin, perhaps, might be inclined to the belief that some form of fascism is being favoured or may come into favour in Paris-before long. Yet that ready marshalling of analogies may lead to. misapprehen-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.