FRANCE: For Votes, Wine

In the musty hotel rooms in Geneva where the real business of the League of Nations is done. French Foreign Minister Flandin's rebuttal of Germany's peace plan created far less excitement last week than it would have three weeks ago or three weeks hence.

"A campaign document." French wiseacres told each other. "We will have to wait until after the election to see what France really means."

Meanwhile in France's 86 departments 3,580 candidates were intimately concerned in finding out what France's 11,000,000 voters really mean. On April 26 France and her colonies must...

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