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NEWS OF THE WEEK

IN France the Governments of M. Briand and M. Herriot have fallen. We mentioned last week an ominously narrow majority in a crucial division in the Chamber. On Saturday M. Briand was defeated by forty-five votes and resigned. M. Herriot formed a government which fell in turn on Wednesday. We have expressed our anxieties for France in an article necessarily written before M. Herriot's resignation, and will here only chronicle the events. When M. Caillaux returned last week from London, he found Paris out- wardly engaged in entertaining the Sultan of Morocco and the Marquis de Estella. There was little enthusiasm for his agreement with H.M.'s Treasury, but no great apparent hostility. The franc was falling below 200 to the * *

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