M. Poincare will in all probability carry on till the
Chamber meets on June 1st, but will resign just before meeting the Deputies. We discuss the probable reactions of the elections on French foreign policy, and so on the whole relationship between this country and France, in our first leading article. Here we can only warn our readers against too much optimism. Nothing is more dangerous to prophesy than how a French deputy will vote or how the groups will arrange themselves in a new Chamber. Even if a Government of the Left is formed, we must remember that it will have all the great organs of the Paris Press against it, and will depend on an extremely slender majority in the Chamber. It is certain that it will be assailed with the greatest violence if it attempts the least divergence from M. Poineare's foreign policy. Thus, sensational developments like the immediate evacuation of the Rule• are more than unlikely.
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