123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536

The ostensible reason of the defeat was probably not the

real one. The Chamber holds that M. Dupuy has mismanaged the Dreyfus affair. The Radicals hate him because he proposed the Act taking the trial out of the hands of the Criminal Division of the Court of Caseation, and the reactionaries detest him because ever since the death of M. Fanre he has swerved to the side of revision. Both therefore unite to punish him, and for the moment he is the moat unpopular man in France. He is really, we conceive, a second-rate man of the well-informed pedagogue type, with unusual nerve, immense conceit, and a large measure of selfseekingness. He will turn up again if the Republic lives, and eats up Premiers at its usual rate.

Next page