Foreign News: Coming Elections

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The Cabinet, after considering the respective merits of May 4, 11 and 18, decided to hold Parliamentary elections on May 11—which will be just one week after the German Reichstag elections. As the attitude of the French electorate will largely depend on events in Germany, the eleventh will be most advantageous to Poincaré. A lapse of more than a week would allow a careful analysis of German returns. In a week much propaganda of alarmist complexion could be used to advantage by the Bloc National, of which M. Poincaré is the head. The date—Jeanne d'Arc Day—is also calculated to play upon the national pride of the French people.