POLICY OF FRANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 305, 26 December 1930, Page 7

POLICY OF FRANCE.

Becla*atioit fey; ■ f'yjl ' 'Premier. .'■;■_.• ; OF M. BRIAND. '■• ■•■'. . PARIS, December 25. . "When, the new ; Prime Minister, M. Eiteeg, delivered the Ministerial declaration of policy in the Chamber of Deputies, which passed a motion of confidence; bjr 291 : votes to 284/ he said his foreign policy, would be that which had been followed during the past few years, namely, internatiOnar economics and fofieign; c6-6peratibu. With this ment arbitration would .come firstj security second and disarmament last.

France's "permanent" Foreign Minister, M.. Bfiand,. in a speech before the Ffench Chamber Of Commerce and In-' dus'try, said: "So long aB I am called upbhv to occupy the formidable . post Which I hold, so long as I am Called Upon to preserve the.policy which I still Consider", to be unanswerable for my counI shall not shrink from the path."

M..Bfiand defended his action in taking "-office in the present Government; "I Shall remain irremovable at my s She skid, "striving With all my heart and mind to bring to a successful issUe'i'the office to which I have devoted my life; One influence makes me hesifateY* I can see in the eyes of my c'buntryinenthat they regard mo; either as ajiodl or as a traitor."