We have written in a leading article about the situation
in France as the result of the election of M. Donmergue as President, and of the appointment of M. Herriot as Prime Minister. Here we will write only of the opening of the new session and of its hopeful signs. On Tuesday the Senate and the Chamber received a message from the new President the sense of which was that he regarded himself as above parties. Only in that way, he said, could he be an impartial arbiter. This declaration is, from our British point of view, distinctly to the good. M. Millerand took quite the opposite course when he definitely declared himself in favour of the Poincare policy, and stated that he could not work with any Ministry which upset that policy. Well, events have proved in a sense that he was right. The French nation, having disapproved of and abandoned the rigours of M. Poincare, would not work with M. Millerand.
