M. LAVAL'S MINISTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 9

M. LAVAL'S MINISTRY

SURPRISE APPOINTEE

FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

LAVAL AT FOREIGN OFFICE

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PARIS, June 7,

M. Laval, formerly Foreign Minister, has ■' succeeded in forming a Cabinet.

The new Government extends from Radicals to the Right group under M. Marin.

A surprise appointment is that of M. Regnier, who assumes the burden of the financial and economic crisis. Probably he was chosen for his experience as a former rapporteur of the Budget in the Senate. His only previous Cabinet post was the Ministry of the Interior in M. Flandin's brief Cabinet. . He is a lawyer by profession.

The new Cabinet is as follows:—

Prime Minister ami Minister of Foreign

Affairs, M. Laval. Ministers without portfolio, M. Herriot,

M. Marin, and M. Flandin. Minister of the Interior, M. Paganon. Minister of Justice, M. Leon Berard. Minister of Finance, M. Marcel

Regnier. Minister of Marine, M. Pietri. Minister of War, Colonel Fabry Minister of Education, M. Marcombes. Minister of Commerce, M. Georges

Bonnet. Minister of Air, General Dcnain. Minister of Public Worts, M. Lauren-

teynac. Minister of Colonies, M. Rollin. Minister of Merchant Marine, M.

Roustan. Minister of Labour, M. Frossard. Minister of Pensions, M. Maupoil. Minister of Agriculture, M. Jathala. Minister of Health, M. La Font. Minister of Post and Telegraphs, 31 MandeL <