BID FOR POWER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 83, 9 March 1925, Page 10

BID FOR POWER.

CAILLAUX’S COME-BACK. ‘•DANGER TO BRITAIN.” LONDON, Feb. 22. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail writes:—“M. Caillanx, who has come back more often than any politician in France, is making another bold 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. Ho has fallen oftener and lower than any politician in the history of the Third Repubic, yet lie 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 the Premiership. He has left each time to the accompaniment 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 due to the State from unwilling taxpayers. PRO-GERMAN RECORD. “Ho stands for a Continental policy which would lead France to a reconciliation with Germany, substituting a Franco-German entente for the Entente Cordiale, 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 liis own Foreign Minister. It recalls also Madame Caillaux killing M. Calmette, 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 having said: “Caillaux is a man of unbounded ambition, supreme pride, and undying resentment. He was during the war a danger to France and Britain. He remains so, unless he has greatly changed.”