M. Poincare's Government of National Union fell on Tuesday, and
Englishmen will probably have mixed feelings at the news. On the one hand, being conscious a M. Poineare's magnificent work in reconstructing French finances, they will dread the dangers to France if his work cannot be continued ; on the other hand, they will see welcome signs in the revolt of the Radicals, who think that M. Poineare is spending too much on the Army. It was wonderful that M. Poineare was able to hold his ill-assorted Coalition together for more than two years.. Nothing but the public sense that he was the only man who could: save France financially could have enabled him to do it. That sense is not so strong as it was, and the Radical-Socialist Ministers in the Govern- ment (whose ringleaner wa3 M. Herriot) disagreed with M. Poineare not only about the concessions to the Church, but about the Army Estimates.
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