MILLERAND’S MESSAGE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 220, 11 June 1924, Page 9

MILLERAND’S MESSAGE

SEMI-OFFICIAL FORECAST

INTERFERENCE WITH MANDATE INADMISSIBLE A MOMENTOUS PRECEDENT A semi-official forecast of President Millerand’s message to Parliament states that he will declare that his attitude has always conformed to the constitutional prerogative, and that the interference with his mandate is inadmissible. Parliament alone, he will contend, can decide the question of the Presidency.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Rec. June 10, 10.55 p.m.) Paris, June 9.

According to a semi-official forecast President Millerand’s message to Parliament will briefly review events since his assumption of the Presidency, recalling that the President invariably pursued a policy of social progress and agreement at home and abroad, and that all the Cabinets to vdiich he has entrusted power have been coalition ones in which members of the Left have participated. He will declare that his attitude had. always conformed to the constitutional prerogative, and will point out that the new majority has made it impossible for the head of the State to exercise his mandate. Such interference he will declare to be inadmissible, and will assert that the subordination of the powers of the head of the State to electoral fluctuations would result in creating a precedent fraught with incalculable consequences. He will conclude that Parliament alone can decide the question of the Presidency.—Reuter.