ANOTHER FRENCH CABINET

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21024, 28 November 1933, Page 11

ANOTHER FRENCH CABINET

M. CHAUTEMPS THE LEADER OTHER POSTS LITTLE ALTERED SUPPORT OF THE CENTRE (UMTKD PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGItAPU— COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 27, 8.30 p.m.) ! PARIS, November 27. M. Camille' Chautemps has accepted the Premiership. The Cabinet remains much the same as M. 'Sarraut's, with M. Joseph PaulBoncour at the Foreign Office, M. Edouard Daladier Minister for War, and M. Georges Bonnet Minister for Finance. M. Chautemps himself will be Minister for the Interior. The Government will be mainly Radical, dependent for its majority on the centre. Its most urgent task will be financial restoration, in which the socialists are not prepared to co-operate. However, most of the parties seem to realise that the massacre of Cabinets cannot continue. I'M. Chautemps is a member of the Radical Socialist Party. He has been Premier of France once before, in 1930, when M. Andre Tardieu was overthrown by a snap vote during his absence at the London Naval Conference. M. Chautemps's Cabinet, however, was defeated on its first appearance in the Chamber of Deputies and M. Tardieu resumed office.! ATTACK ON RECENT GOVERNMENTS M. TARIHEL'S CRITICISM (Received November 27, 11.50 p.m.) PARIS, November 27. M. Tardieu, speaking in the chamber, vigorously attacked the Left Wing Governments which have ruled France recently, declaring that they had led the country to the brink of bankruptcy and war. He refrained from attacking the Radicals directly, suggesting that they might be included in a National Union Ministry, similar to that of M. Poincare in 1926. He concluded by saying: "France cannot live in (he present state of Europe with Ministries that last three weeks." EFFORT TO STAY ON GOLD STANDARD RESTRICTIONS LIKELY PARIS, November 26. French official circles believe that France will remain on the gold standard, though constant heavy withdrawals will lead to the restriction of dealings in gold to legitimate commercial requirements. ANXIETY ABOUT BRITISH DUTIES SILK INDUSTRY'S FEARS (Received November 27, 11.55 p.m.) PARIS, November 27. The Lyons silk industry is very anxious about the strained economic relations with Great Britain, as a quarter of France's total silk production is sold to Great Britain, the value of the exports being £5,000,000. The proposed British surtax would result in the closing of factories and increased unemployment. DECLINING TRADE EXPORTS AFFECTED MOST PARIS, October 18. A big decline in France's exports and a smaller but substantial decline in her imports are shown in the foreign trade figures for the first nine months of the current year, compared with the • corresponding period of 1932. Exports totalled 13,472,000,000 francs (about £168,400,000) in value, a decrease of 1,094,000,000 francs (£13,670,000). Imports amounted to 21,607,000,000 francs (£270,000,000), a shrinkage of 502,000,000 francs (£6,300,000).