France and M. Poincar4 At a special meeting of the
French Cabinet late on Friday, July 26th, it was announced that M. Poincare had resigned on account of his failing health. This time, apparently, the doctors are inexorable. We were already aware of their verdict before the six days' wonder of a speech in which this great servant of France set down once and for all the imperative need for his country to honour her international obligations. Nothing became him better, we think, than this swan song. We have frequently deplored his narrow views on international questions and his legalistic bias ; nor could we subscribe to the idea that he was ever, in a technical sense, a great Minister of Finance. The fact remains that his personality alone commanded the confidence of his countrymen, and he has every right to go down in history as the " Saviour of the Franc."
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