VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 9

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

FRENCH CHAMBER

"THE ONLY CHANCE OF

PEACE"

(Received May 13, 12.30 p.m.)

PARIS, May 12.

The Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence in the Daladier Government by 375 votes to 230.

If the vote had been solely on foreign affairs policy it would have been unanimous. A divergence of views occurred on finance and the decree laws. The Socialists, at a private meeting, were split, 48 voting against and 42 for M. Daladier.

During the debate the Socialist leader, M. Blum, made reference to a change in Franco-British foreign policy and said: "Every move that is capable of persuading the dictators of the democracies' determination is a move of peace, the only chance of which consists in the totalitarian States understanding the sincerity of the French and British determination that further acts of aggression will not be tolerated." M Daladier denied that French policy had "been changed since Munich. France's- voice had been heard, and others had assumed common obligations with France. Liberty could not be saved without painful and tenacious effort.