VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
REMADIER’S ACTIONS APPOINTMENTS DEFENDED (9 am.) PARIS, Jan, 29. Although the constitution did not oblige him to do so, the Prime Minister M. Ramadier, yesterday accepted a debate in the Assembly on the composition of his Government and afterwards received a 543 to 18 vote of confidence. _ . The Times’ correspondent in Paris says that the burden of the attacks against M. Ramadier was. first, that in choosing his Ministers he paid more attention to political necessities than the country’s requirements; and, secondly, that in appointing a Communist as Defence Minister he had placed a member of a “foreign nationalist party” in a vital post. M. Ramadier. replying, emphasised that the need for a coalition Government in France did not reflect failings in the constitution, but the country’s deep and complex divisions. He added that under the constitution the Prime Minister alone had full responsibility for the use of the armed forces, and there was no question of his delegating that prerogative.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 6
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