Controversy on Question of Abolishing Embassy Paris, Jan. 24.
M. Herriot, the French Premier, had 'a trying ordeal in the Chamber of Deputies to-day. Although his og is still troubling him and compelling him to rest his right knee on a footstool during a speech, he spoke for two-und reply to M. Briand's speech in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday in which M. Briand insisted—on the necessity of maintaining the French Embassy to the Vatican.
Amidst continual interruptions by deputies of the Right Parties M. Herriot vigorously defended the decision to abolish the French.
Embassy to the V: Referring to the pro-German policy of the Holy See during the war, he dered that the Papacy, if anything, iwas less disposed to France since the restoration of the Embassy to the Vatican than before and emphasized that the separation of the Church. from the State was a fundamental Principle of the French Constitution, M, Herriot, the French Premier, stated in the Chamber to-day that the Conseil d'Etat, which is the supreme tribunal of administrative Taw, had expressed the opinion that the Concordat between France and the Vatican in 1801, which was denounced by France in 1905, still applied to Alsace-Lorraine where was enforced by Germany after the war of 1870-71.
M. Herriot stated that the Government had accepted this ruling] and consequently the Concordat} would continue to be applied there. The Opposition is expected to make the most of the dilemma in which the ruling places M. Herriot, who now is faced with the paradoxical policy of withdrawing from the Vatican the representative there of All France and df appointing a.
representative for Alsace-Lorraine—Reuter.
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