FRANCE: Going?

One fine Paris morning at 10:30 o'clock Premier Poincare led his Cabinet to The Elysee, handed President Millerand the following letter:

Mr. President:

Conforming to a decision taken by the Government on the morrow of the general elections [TIME, May 19] we have the honor to submit to you the collective resignation of the Cabinet.

The President accepted the resignation, made the usual request that the Government carry on current business until the formation of a new Cabinet.

In the afternoon, at one o'clock, the Parties of the Left Bloc (Radical, Unified and...

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