CABINET BREACH.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19461, 7 November 1928, Page 11

CABINET BREACH.

M. POINCARE'S PROBLEM.

MINISTERS MAY RESIGN.

(united press association—bt electbio TELEGBAPH—COPTEIGHT.) (Received November 6th, midnight). PARIS, November 6. A later development, possibly resulting in the break-up. of the Poincarfi Government, occurred at a night sitting of the Socialist-Radical Congress. After M. Herriot (Minister for Public Instruction) had smothered differences over the Budget and departed for Paris with his friends, the Committee (it is understood at the behest of M. Caillaux), who is presiding at the Congress) commenced to redraft the Party manifesto.

The Committee, which consists entirely of M. Poincare's enemies, immediately introduced a clause tantamount to a summons to the SocialistRadical Ministers to leave the Government. There appears to be every likelihood of the clause being voted on in the absence of M. Herriot. In this event M. Herriot, M. Sarraut (Minister for the Interior), and M. Queuille (Minister for Agriculture), will have no course but to resign and the Poincare Ministry wi]" be broken. M. Poincare's most likely action is to tender the resignation of the whole Government in preference to appointing temporary successors to the trio or attempting to defy the Congress by appealing to the Chamber to overrule it on the military and ecclesias issues.— "Times" Cables.

PROCEEDING WARILY*

(Received November 6th, 8.45 p.m.)

LONDON, November 6. The' Paris correspondent of "The Times" states that M. Poincare has again escaped a Cabinet crisis between Radicals and Socialists in the Congress owing to the wisdom of the Moderates' amending suggestion to prevent its four representatives in Cabinet participating in a policy it disapproves. Nevertheless the there introduction of the debate has been a disturbing influence, although immediate danger is past. M. Poincare, it is expected, will be able to deal with further attempts to disturb Cabinet's harmoiiy and the Budget's equilibrium. Business men do not feel that financial reforms have yet reached the stage where irresponsible experiments by the Government can be indulged in with impunity, while reparations and other problems are so complicated that it is almost impossible that they could be taken up by a new Cabinet. —"The Times" Cables.