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But the distance was too great, and the two German aeroplanes vanished shortly before seven in a northerly direction. This evening President Poincare and the French Government removed the seat of government from Paris to Bordeaux, and the following proclamation was issued: Frenchmen, For several weeks, during desperate fighting, our heroic troops have struggled with the enemy's army.
I knew that Colonel Roosevelt would have written a letter to the German Emperor as impartially as to M. Poincaré, but I knew also that Rupert of Hentzau would not believe that. So I decided to keep the letter back until the last moment. If it was going to help me, it still would be effective; if it went against me, I would be just as dead. I began to think out other plans.
General Pau's son, a sub-lieutenant of infantry, is lying wounded at the hospital at Troyes. General Pau had an informal conversation with President Poincare at the Elysee Palace, and leaves again for the front to-morrow morning. Refugees from Belgium and northern France continue to pour into Paris.
This tendency to chauvinism was recognized as a menace to peace, and we find reflections of that feeling in the Belgian dispatches. Thus, for instance, Baron Guillaume, Belgian minister at Paris, writes on February, 21, 1913, of M. Poincaré: It is under his Ministry that the military and slightly chauvinistic instincts of the French people have awakened.
Furthermore, if from our childhood, phenomena had been of daily occurrence requiring a space of four or more dimensions for an explanation conformable to reason, we should feel ourselves native to a space of four or more dimensions. Poincaré, the great French mathematician and physicist, arrived at these same conclusions by another route.
A moment later we were at the gate of Fort de la Chaume, and we were warned not to stop, but to hasten in, for the Germans, whenever they see cars at this point, suspect that Joffre has arrived, or President Poincaré, and act accordingly. We did not delay. Fort de la Chaume is one of the many fortifications built since the Franco-Prussian War and intended to defend the city.
The nightmare was at last over! . . . Cruel reality was preferable to the uncertainty of days and days, each as long as a week. In vain President Poincare, animated by a last hope, was explaining to the French that "mobilization is not necessarily war, that a call to arms may be simply a preventive measure." "It is war, inevitable war," said the populace with a fatalistic expression.
Have we a right to destroy that mind?" Von Heldenfeld shouted, banging his fist on the table: "I don't care if he's Gauss and Riemann and Lorenz and Poincare and Minkowski and Whitehead and Einstein, all collapsed into one! The man is a stinking traitor, not only to us, but to all scientists and all sciences! If he doesn't shoot himself, hand him over to the United States, and let them shoot him!
A few weeks later the Premier ordered the publication of the text of the Treaty, although, in the meantime, it had not been signed by M. Poincaré. "The excuse founded upon Article 8 was, therefore, a mere humbug," flippantly wrote an influential journal. An amusing joke, which tickled all Paris was perpetrated shortly afterward.
The appointment was made on the recommendation of General Gallieni, the War Minister, who, in a report to President Poincaré, said: "By the decree of October 28, 1913, the Government, charged with the vital interests of the country, alone has the right to decide on the military policy.
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