The past week saw President Millerand, Premier Poincaré and ex-Premiers Briand and Painlevé, and Radical Mayor Edouard Herriot of Lyons rocked together in a conclave cradle. Rumors, like hope, sprang eternal; but nothing definitely important nor importantly definite became known. It was, however, generally assumed that Edouard Herriot will succeed Raymond Poincaré as 70th Premier of the Third Republic.
In an interview at Lyons, M. Herriot gave some reliable indication of what his policy will be, if or when he assumed the Premiership:
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