The French Crisis Postponed For the second time M. Doumergue
has saved France from disaster. No one but he could have held the Cabinet together after the Tardieu-Chautemps episode. As it is, though the crisis is only postponed—for all the odds are that the Radical-Socialists at their Conference at Nantes in October will call their Ministers out of the Government--confidence in the Prime Minister himself, and to a less degree in the Cabinet, is very largely restored. M. Tardieu comes worse out of the business than anyone, in spite of his declaration that he merely answered ques- tions put to him by the Stavisky Investigation Committee, and that though he was compelled to charge M. Chautemps with having hushed up Stavisky's exploits he made no attack on the Radical-Socialist Party. Only an acute crisis would have brought the National Government in France into being, and party feeling runs too high for it to remain in being long. But' after this pacification there should be tranquillity for the next two or three months. * *
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