The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1926. FREAKSOME FRANCE

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 729, 11 March 1926, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1926. FREAKSOME FRANCE

Like It is friend on the other side of the English Channel, Lloyd George .Aristides Briand is a maker of phrases. The other morning he indicated by an .apt phrase that the extremists in the French. Parliament had broken a political plate over his head—hut he was not going to pick up the pieces. He was not going to have injury added to insult. No, he did not want flaw Premiership again. Hadn’t he just been defeated the day before when frying to save France? What was the use trying to save a country that would not save itsell by means of a- Little extra taxation? Vet on the. afternoon, of the same day that ho used the broken dish phrase .M. Briand ,who had resigned the Premiership the day before, again aeeepted the task of forming a Government! Thus for the ninth time Aristides Briand is Pre*mier of the- most unstable country, politically, in the world. Possibly, he is lie one man that ran stabilise the franc, and that is France’s greatest need and problem to-day. He is also probably tile ablest and (sanest delegate' that France could send to the Council of the League of Nations at the present crucial juncture.. All the same, France causes more trouble than enough in the councils of Europe', and is a constant thorn in the side of long-suf-fering and wonderfully patient Britain .