FRENCH POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 5

FRENCH POLITICS.

PARTY MOVEMENTS

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LONDON. De-. 21.

M. Delca^ej formerly Prime Minister of France, 16 retiring from the position of French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and is returning to French politics. He probably will accept a portfolio in M. Douniergue's Cabinet. PARIS, Dec. 22. The newspapers "note that there are certain devolpptneiits in French politics which- are tending, gradually to unite opposing groups into two large parties similar to those in the United Kingdom. ,• ' ■'• .<. '• *•; ', ,'. -. ' --M. ,'Brland, leader '-of the movement, has ifiaugur-ated an important electoral cnmpaicn. Whileiaddressing 2000 constituents at ,Sti EtieWne, be repeatedly receivted ovations. He .-vigorously detiounced.the.new Cabinet on the ground of itis inisincerity and inconsistency. He described his own position as standing between the-rig^it! party and the extreme left party. The latter, be feaid was a." party;of revolution. He appealed; to Kisfearers to work for the realisation of 'a i Republic wherein the Government would oe M the service; of oil Frenchmenl and 4rom which the harsh, tyranny,of local personalities of "parish-pump* i interests would "be "banished as as the Great Revolution ended the reign of personal and,•„central, despot^m.'