PRAISE FOR NEW PREMIER

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 13

PRAISE FOR NEW PREMIER

♦ — Enthusiasm of "The Times" i | HARDEST TASK OF CAREER (UNITED Ptir.SS ASSOC TVI'IOS —BY ELICTSIC TELIQR.U'H—COrTUIGHT.) (Received February 9, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. "Vive Doumergue" is the heading on a leading article in which "The Times" records the Premier's brisk but wary approach to the task of . giving France a stable government. ! M. Doumergue, says "The Times," is a type his compatriots love to i see in high places. He is gay and spirited, but dignified; of firm judgment, common sense, and unassum- ; ing shrewdness; and he never al- > lows personal bias to override con- . siderations of state. M. Doumergue is now probably undertaking the hardest part of his' <■ career. His views will receive much I • greater attention than the Due de . ] Guise's pathetic and rather ridicu-' , lous appeal on behalf of the Mon-j 1 : archist principle. Confidence seems 0 felt that a Government of national .safety will soon be in existence.— 11 "The Times" Cable. j :! I

'I [DISTRUST OF MIRACLES . I ■| M. DOUMERGUE CALM NEWSPAPER ATTACK ON I POLITICIANS I PARIS, February 8. When a representative of the ) newspaper "L'lntransigeant" ex- : claimed to M. Doumergue, "You are ' awaited as a saviour" the new PreI mier quietly asked him not to cx- . aggerate, adding, "I have never performed miracles. I distrust them. ■ Nor am I a fetish, but I shall do my I best." ': "L'lntransigeant," commenting on '. M. Doumergue's task, declares that France has had enough of politicians ( who have entirely failed. The news- , paper suggests the grouping of the | ', army, navy, and air force as a < ' national defence under a Ministry j headed by Marshal Henri Petain, who previously galvanised the army into activity. I "We want men who will not con- ; tir.ue the humilitating policy of placing France in the tow of other coun- ' tries, but will straightforwardly face j I Hitler, Mac Donald, and the others. "The Ministry for the Interior must ' uncompromisingly strike direct at j the magistrates and the police. We do not want a dictatorship, but honest Secretaries of State. We want six patriots who will do their utmost, and if Parliament fails after j that its dissolution will be neces- J sary." i ■ I