GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 7

GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE

MR MARIE ASKED TO FORM CABINET SUCCESS HELD UNLIKELY PARIS, July 21. The 30-year-old Minister of Justice in Mr Schuman’s Government, Mr Andre Marie, whom the Germans from 1943 to 1945 deported to the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp for resistance activities, said to-day: “The President (Mr Vincent Auriol) has asked me to form a Cabinet. I hope to form a Government with all Republicans and those of goodwill.” Political circles said they thought that Mr Marie would try to form a Cabinet more to the Right than Mr Schuman’s, and that he would try to have representatives of all parties in his Cabinet. Socialist deputies agreed that any support given Mr Marie would be conditional on his economic doctrine. Political observers consider that Mr Marie has not a very good chance of forming a Cabinet.

ASSEMBLY FOR EUROPE PROPOSAL TO WESTERN UNION (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 21. The international committee of the movements for European unity which organised the Congress of Europe at The Hague in May has offered in a letter to the Western Union Foreign Ministers to convene a European assembly if their governments or parliaments do not feel disposed to do so. The letter asked each Foreign Minister to receive a deputation to discuss the question. FOOD FOR STARVING CHILDREN £20,750,000 TO BE SPENT NEXT YEAR (Rec. 11 p.m.) GENEVA, July 22. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund has agreed to spend £20,750.000 in 1949 to give extra food to 5,000,000 of the world’s hungry children.