The heads of political wiseacres were wagging over the approaching doom of Premier Herriot and the probable accession to the premiership of ex-Premier Aristide Briand, or the possible advent to that dignity of industrialist Louis Loucheur.
This reasoning was based in theory upon the fact that French Premiers rarely remain long in office. In fact, three problems were stated as likely to cause the "chute":
1) Red agitation.
2) Alsace and Lorraine.
3) Anticlericalism.
The first is a question of failing to deal drastically enough with the Communists. The...
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