UNPOPULAR IN FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1938, Page 9

UNPOPULAR IN FRANCE

GOVERNMENT MAY FALL

PREMIER DEFIANT

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, November 18. Street demonstrations in Paris against the recovery decrees of the Minister of Finance, M. Reynaud,

occurred last night when 2000 people assembled in the Place dTtalia shouting, "Down with the decrees," "Resign, Daladier," "Resign, Reynaud." Police dispersed the demonstrators after arresting thirteen. The Paris Correspondent of the "News Chronicle" asserts that resistance to the decrees has already reached proportions which make the fall of the Daladier Ministry on the reassembly of Parliament almost a foregone conclusion. The Socialist and Communist Parties are demanding, their immediate withdrawal. The Confederation of Trade Unions has fixed November 26 as a "day of national protest." There is also renewed talk of a general strike, but the Paris correspondent of "The Times" says that responsible leaders of the confederation are completely opposed to such a step. In a speech at a journalists' banquet M. Daladier admitted, that the decrees meant sacrifices, but they were necessary for France's economic recovery. He added: "I snap my fingers at opponents' intrigues and manoeuvres. I despise their threats. They will neither succeed in breaking the Government's will nor in stopping France's momentum to recovery."