The Paris correspondent of the Times described in Tuesday's issue
the recent proceedings of the National Federation of Teachers' Unions, which caused the Government to decide to suppress the unions. It appears that at the Congress which opened at Chambery on August 16th some extraordinary anti -patriotic resolutions were passed, and it is astonishing to learn that they were passed unanimously. The worst resolu- tion was that which expressed adherence to the anti-military organization known as the " Son du Soldat." The object of this organization is, by means of collecting a sou a month from each of its members, to spread anti-militarism and the whole creed of the Confederation Gent5rale du Travair in the Army. The declared intention of the teachers of the youth of France is thus to under- mine the discipline of the Army upon which the State, the employer of the teachers themselves, expends a large proportion of its total Budget! It would be absurd to suppose that such lunatic resolutions represent the real opinion of the mass of French teachers. It is no doubt the
old story of the energetic extremists capturing the machine and intimidating the moderates. The unions are to dissolve by September 10th.
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