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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1039, 11 June 1924, Page 5

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M. MILLERAND RESIGNS, RESULT OF CENSURE MOTION, (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 11, 12.10 p.m. PARIS, June 10. M. Millerand, the President of France, has resigned.—Sydney Sun cable. Received June 11, 11.20 a.m. PARIS, June 10. M. Millerand's message was read in the Chamber this afternoon by M. Francois Marsal and in the Senate by M. Ratier, Keeper of the Seals. In the course thereof M. Millerand declared that he had faithfully kept the solemn engagement he made before the country and refused to desert the post to which he was culled by Parliament in respect to the constitution. The Left groups unanimously adopted a resolution which will be submitted to the Chamber to-day declaring that the Chamber resolves not to enter into relations with a Ministry, which by its composition is a negation of the rights of Parliament and refuses to enter into the unconstitutional debate to which it is invited, and has decided to adr journ all discussion until a Government constituted in conformity with the country's sovereign will presents itself before it.—Renter. Received June 11, 11.20 a.m. PARIS, June 10. The Chamber adopted the motion of censure moved by the Left. This means the resignation of M. Millerand. —A. and N.Z. cable. MESSAGE TO PARLIAMENT. ~~ PARIS, June 9. ' According to a semi-official forecast. President Millerand's message to Parliament will briefly review events since his assumption of the Presidency, recalling that the President had invariably pursued a policy of social progress and agreement at home and abroad, and that all the Cabinets to which he had entrusted power had been coalition ones, in which members of the Left had participated. It will declare that his attitude has always conformed with the constitutional prerogative and will point out that the new majority has made it impossible for the head of the State to exercise his mandate. Such interference is regarded as inadmissible, and he asserts that the subordination of the powers of the head of the State to electoral fluctuations would result in creating a precedent fraught with incalculable consequences. The President concludes that Parliament alone can decide the question of the Presidency.— A. and N.Z. cable.