PREMIER HECKLED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 7

PREMIER HECKLED

M. Blum Walks Out But Is Induced to Return ANGRY SCENES By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. PARIS, June 7. Angry scenes, in which the sitting was suspended and M. Blum walked out, characterised the first meeting of the new Chamber. M. Vallat (a Rightist) referred to M. Jean Chiappe, the former Chief of Police, and now a Deputy. M. Chiappe jumped up and was greeted with Communist shouts of “Chiappe to the gallows'!” and Right counter-shouts of “Moscow! Moscow!” The uproar and banging of desks were bo great that M. Herriot, the new president. suspended the Chamber. When it reassembled M. Vallat said; “This is an historic occasion, as France is now, for the first time, governed by a Jew.” This caused renewed uproar, in which M. Blum walked out. His friends followed, but they induced him to return.

M. Herriot demanded that M. Vallat withdraw. M. Vallat replied that Al. Blum had always acknowledged his re ligion, at which the Premier nodded. M. Herriot again demanded that M. Vallat change the subject. | M. Vallat, however, continued; “1 ask how a peasant nation can be ruled by an Israelite who uproots the soil with Jewish secretaries.” M. Herriot retorted; ••£ do not know Jews, protestants or catholics; I know only Frenchmen in the Chamber.” He added- that if M. Vallat continued he would be expelled. M. Reynaud, an advocate of devaluation, emphasised Britain’s success in fighting the economic crisis by intro-

ducing a regime increasing the work er’s purchasing power, and urged M. Blum to devaluate, ensuring international monetary alignment, without which his programme would lead to inflation and a catastrophe in which la bour would be the first victim.

M. Blum, replying to this and other interpellations, definitely declared against devaluation, adding that they would try, by creating large credits, to obtain the same results as devaluation had achieved elsewhere. He announced that he would not use tho policy or the army to eject workers staying in factories. Nevertheless this is illegal, but the owners have not asked the Government to use force. Moreover, the previous Government had not intervened in the strikes of 1934. This precluded the present Government using force.

M. Blum proposed special committees to examine each dispute between mas ters and workers.

He promised a debate on foreign affairs before the League meetings at the end of tho month and concluded amid cheers from tho Left by appealing lor support in the Government’s task of restoring confidence to French workers, and the creation of a peaceful Europe.

DRAINAGE OF GOLD

Washington Watching

NEW YORK, June 6.

The apparently-deepening crisis in France and M. Blum’s removal of M. Tannery from the governorship of the Bank of France further accelerated the drainage of gold from Europe to America. To-da.v’s shipments of gold totalled 25,661,000 dollars.

Washington officials pointed out that the Treasury’s stabilisation fund has been used in the past to support the franc, and indicated that it would again, if the necessity arose. As yet, however, no policy to meet the present situation has been decided upon.