Foreign News: Very Prudent Game

French women, who gain their ends without voting, saw their ten million men off to another 100% male election last week, this time to choose a new Chamber of Deputies.

Among a dozen parties, scores of groups and hundreds of independents who swelled the total of candidates to 3,617, the "Big Three" party leaders were two Gentiles and a Jew.

Jew Leon Blum, who calls himself a Marxian Socialist, has never been Premier despite the fact that his Socialists have been holding down more Chamber seats than any other party (112 out of 610). For...

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