15 MARCH 1924, Page 1

If the movement succeeded and M. Poincare accepted the respite,

he would be making a present of a valuable _ _ rallying cry to all his opponents who cared to base them- PAGE selves on Constitutionalism. On the whole, we imagine that the movement will fail, but it has become important enough, if only as a symptom, to be regarded with all gravity. Meanwhile, M. Gustave Herve, whose convic- tions have turned the full circle and who is now as violent for dictatorial methods as he once was for pacifism, reiterates daily in his piper "To Versailles ! To Ver- sailles ! " What he wants is the formation of a National Assembly at which M. Millerand would seek authority to govern by decree.