FRENCH CABINET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1038, 10 June 1924, Page 5

FRENCH CABINET.

TEMPORARY MINISTRY. PARIS, June 8. M. Marsal has virtually completed his stop-gap Cabinet, including the Premier (Finance) M, Deslives (Interior), M. Lefebre, M. Dtlprey (Foreign Affairs) and M. Maginot (War)All tire members belong to the Bloc National and almost all were members of Presidents Millerand's or M. Poincarc's Cabinet. It is understood the President's message to Parliament, a draft of which will be communicated to prospective members of Cabinet in the afternoon, declares that the new majority's determination to cut short his seven years tenure of the Presidency amounts to a coup de force, and a violation to the constitution, and asks Parliament to state, by an unequivocal vote, whether it sanctions such a dangerous precedent. He asserts that he has acted constitutionally throughout his Presidentship. It is a foregone conclusion, however, that the Chamber will vote against President Millerand. It is expected that the new President will be elected by the National Assembly at . Versailles on Friday, and that M. Helriot's Cabinet will thereupon be formed.

The general impression in that M. Marsal's Government is only a prelude to President Millerand's retii-e----inertt, which will be necessary after the Chamber and Senate refuse to accept the new Premier's justification for President Millerand's attitude.