FRENCH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9722, 4 June 1924, Page 5

FRENCH POLITICS.

HERRIOTT’S STRIKING PRO-

GRAMME.

SUPPRESSION OF EMBASSY AT

VATICAN

DAWES REPORT ACCEPTED UNCONDITIONALLY.

(Received Juno 3, 11.5 p.m.) PARIS, June 3

A striking programme has been outlined by M. Herriot in a letter to the leader of the Socialist Party. It embraces the immediate suppression of the decree laws and the re-estab-lishment of the match monopoly, both whereof were passed by the Pincare Government, also a general amnesty, except for evaders of military 'service and traitors. It further proposes the suppression of the Embassy at the Vatican and the application of the law regarding religious congregations a reduction in the military service by the organisation' of tho nation for defensive purposes. M. Herriot, after describing its fiscal proposals, and proLabor tendencies, favors strengthening and extending the role of the League of Nations, the Hague Tribunal, International Labor Office and the resumption of normal relations with Russia. He unconditionally accepts the Dawes report notwithstanding his party’s opposition over the Ruhr policy in the past. AJi. Herriot does not believe in the possibility of at present evacuating the Ruhr before safeguards are laid down therein and enforced and an international regimo established.. The Socialist Congress rejected participation in tho present circumstances. M- Herriot’s statement and programme, however, -were greeted with cheers. The executive of the Radical Socialist Party unanimously approved the programme.—Reuter.