ABSTRACT
The French general election held in May 1924 produced a marked shift away from the Bloc national, in favour of various parties in the Cartel des Gauches, particularly the Radicals and the Socialists. The financial consequences of Jules Henri Poincar's policies probably played a considerable part in determining the results of the French elections of May 1924. In this British cartoon, Poincar, as Napoleon, is prevented from crossing his collapsing Waterloo Bridge into Dreamland by order of the French people. Early in 1924, the Dawes Plan was put forward in the United States as a possible way of cutting through the ill-will and confusion which had long attended the reparations question. The major European governments soon accepted the principle of the Dawes Plan, which looked encouraging; but it would be nave to ignore the special circumstances one might almost say the hypocrisy which prompted the French and Germans in the matter.
