Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... Socialist-Republicans -- before Alexandre Ribot, a senator of rather conservative type, consented to form a cabinet. The Chamber turned him out at once. Rene Viviani, the Socialist-Republican, then took office with a cabinet which resembled that of Doumergue (seven of the former ministers reappearing), but reduced the representation of the Radical-Socialists and increased that of the Democratic Left.1 Viviani had pledged himself to maintain the three-year service law, although his own party and the Radical-Socialist party were pledged to repeal it. In a vote of confidence the Chamber gave him a majority of 223. Cabinets Not long after Viviani became premier, the during e Qreat yar began. In the face of this crisis partisan conflicts disappeared; the parliamentary groups concluded a truce known as the Union sacree; and on August 26 Viviani recognized the new situation by reorganizing his cabinet and bringing in the moderate Republican Ribot and the Unified Socialists Marcel Sembat and Jules Guesde. For the moment at least the Socialists abandoned their conflict with the bourgeoisie. In October, 1915, after the failure of its Balkan policy, the cabinet resigned. The new premier, Aristide Briand, adhering to the coalition plan, went farther than Viviani; he gave office not 1 The cabinet included two Socialist-Republicans, four Radical-Socialists, two members of the Radical Left, and two of the Democratic Left. only to three Unified Socialists, but also to a deputy of the Right, Cochin. In his endeavor to satisfy the claims of all the groups, however, he had built up an unwieldy cabinet -- twentythree ministers including the undersecretaries; and it became necessary, fourteen months later, to reduce the cabinet to half its former size and to...