AMBITIOUS CAILLAUX.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 March 1925, Page 3

AMBITIOUS CAILLAUX.

ANOTHER BID FOR POWER. CHEQUERED POLITICAL, CAREER. LONDON, February 21. The Paris correspondent of the .Daily Mail writes: “M. Caillaux, who has come hack more often than any politician in France, is making another hold bid for power. His return to office is openly discussed, even in quarters most unsympathetic with him and his policy. Everything about Caillaux is strange and paradoxical. He has fallen oftener and lower than any politician in the history of the Third Republic, yet he has always climbed back to power with a skill and perseverance for which his bitterest enemies give him credit. He : has held office dozens of times —-from an Under-Secretaryship to Premiership. He has left each time to. the accom-* paniment of the turmoil and crash of some great political or social scandal. “Caillaux stands for strong, energetic political administration, sometimes harsh and almost ruthless; for' a searching finance policy, extorting every penny f cine to the State from unwilling taxpayers. He stands for a Continental policy which would lead France' to reconciliation with Germany, substituting n Franco-German entente for the Entente C-ordiale, which always was the object of his bitterest attacks.. His policy always has been concessions to „ Germany, and barely-veiled hostility to .Britain.” The article draws attention to the fact that M. Caillaux, when Premier in 1911, was intriguing with Germany regarding Morocco behind the back of his own Foreign Minister. It recalls also Madame Caillaux killing M, Calm- - ette, the editor, when Figaro threatened to publish some of Caillaux’s private correspondence, also Caillaux’s trial on a charge of corresponding with the enemy. The article concludes by quoting anonymously a French statesman who has filled the highest posts in France aS L said : . ‘‘Caillaux is a* man of « unbounded ambit-ion, supreme pride, and undying resentment. He was during the war a danger to France and Britain. He remains so, unless- he has greatly changed.”