FRENCH CRISIS
FORMING NEW CABINET.
PURELY RADICAL MEMBERS. r
M. CHAUTEMPS’ OBJECTIVE
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, January 18. .
M. Chautemps announced that lie is forming a purely Radical Cabinet, chiefly from members of the last Government, in addition to Socialist and Republican Unionists led by M. Paul Boncour. This group and the Radical Socialists passed a resolution supporting M. Chautemps.
SUPPORT BY SOCIALISTS.
POPULAR FRONT PROGRAMME. ■ (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) PARIS, January 18. The National Socialist Council decided to support M. Chautemps’ allRadical Cabinet, provided it retains the Popular Front programme. The Communists passed a motion opposing M. Chautemps.
NO INDICATION OF SUCCESS.
GENERAL ELECTION LIKELY.
(Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, January 18,
France awoke on the fifth" day' of the political crisis to discover that the situation was becoming more complicated than ever.
After a hectic all-night^’wrangling, the Socialist Party adjourned, thus offering scant., hope, oh,.success of., r .M; Cliautemp’s Cabinet-making A, !uv
M. Blum’s resolution favouring a Cabinet with Rightist leanings was defeated, The Conference' then-carried a resolution refusing <to* participate .in.-, the Government, but the Parliamentary Group was instructed to act in agreement With'other;'secti6hs'hf th'e"Popu-" lar Front; 1 J "
It appears ...that the .onus lias thrust on the who are known to desire office, and being dissatisfied at not holding portfolios m the previous Government. Many' believe the Socialists sounded the deathknell of M. Chautemp’s chances. It now seems possible that AL- '-Hcrriot will be asked to try.' Failing this a general election appears the only solution.
A RUSSIAN'S POINT OF VIEW.
DEFECT IN THE GOVERNMENT
MOSCOW, January 17
At a meeting of the. New Parliament, M. Andrei Zhdanov (chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee) said: “I cannot understand what is happening in France, and why they tolerate the existence of terrorist anti-Soviet organisations. The Commissariat of Foreign Affairs must take into consideration this defect on the part, of the Government with which we have a pact of mutual assistance."’
M. Zhdanov demanded a sterner policy against Japanese hooliganism.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 84, 19 January 1938, Page 5
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