A French Revolution

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 96, 23 December 1913, Page 5

A French Revolution

PEACEFUL AND BLOODLESS ONLY TWO PARTIES WANTED. [By ELEcrttio Telegraph—Copyrightj Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. Paris, December 21. M; Delcasse, formerly Prime Minister of France, is retiring from the position of French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and is returning to French polities. He probably will accept a portfolio in M. Doumergue's Cabinet. The newspapers note that there are certain developments in French politics which are tending gradually to unite opposing groups into two large parties similar to those in the United Kingdom. M. Briand, leader of the movement, has inaugurated an important electoral campaign. While addressing 2000 constituents at St. Etienne, he repeatedly received ovations. He vigorously denounced the new Cabinet on the ground of its insincerity and inconsistency. He described his own position as standing between the right party and the extreme left party. The latter, he said, was a party of Revolution. He appealed to his hearers to work for the realisation of a Republic wherein the Government would be at the service of all Frenchmen, and from which the harsh tyranny of local personalities of "parish-pump" interests would lie banished as effectively as the Great Revolution ended the reign of personal and central despotism. ■

FORCING UNPOPULAR IDEAS.

REPUBLIC'S DEATH-KNELL.

(Received 11.50 a.m.) Paris, December 22

M. Briand warned, the Government that if the adversaries of the policy of appeasement attempted in any Government to force npon the country ideas which the country did not want the end of the Republic was not far distant.