FRENCH POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 7

FRENCH POLITICS.

TENSE ATMOSPHERE. ACTION OF'LEFT CARTEL. LONDON, Dec. 26. The New York Times’s Paris correspondent states: “There is a tenseness in the political atmosphere of France this week-end greater than any since the end of the war.' M. Briand’s Government is split within itself, Radical members opposing the Premier and M. Doumer, The Left Cartel under M. Herriot and M. Blum is making a last strong attempt to take back the complete direction of affairs and to reform its ranks under its own leaders. It will lay on the Chamber’s table on Monday its plan for the balancing of the next year’s Budget. It will then be incumbent on the Government to accept or give way, and if the Government declines to accept its defeat will follow. The Left’s plan includes the reduction of 800,000,000 francs in the 1926 Budget through nation-wide economies and a rigid application of the income tax, with an increase as high as 200 per cent. There will be severe penalties for all tax-dodgers, from farmers to industrialists, including prison sentences and the suspension of civil rights. A 30 per cent, reduction in the income tax on salaried persons is to be provided for.”—A. and N. cable. ;