FRENCH CABINET

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 8

FRENCH CABINET

M. BRIAND AS PREMIER. CERTAIN NEyT ELEMENTS. PARIS. June 24.. Tho Cabinet, formed with M. Caillaux’s collaboration, is one of Republican union with the introduction of certain new elements. . . The personnel of the now Cabinet is as follows: Premier and Foreign Affairs, M. Briand. Vice-Premier and Finance, M. Caillaux. Justice, M. Pierre Laval. Interior, M. Durant. -.War, M. Guillaumat. Marine, M. Leygues. Colonies, M. Leon Perrier.—Reuter. NEW REGIME. REGARDED AS DICTATORSHIP. LONDON, June 24. “We are two consuls,” M. Caillaux said, describing his own and M. Briand’s positions. The best informed correspondents of tho London Press, however, regard the appointment in the light of a dictatorship. They agree that M. Caillaux extracted a promise of no interference. The new regime will probably be regularised by a Bill in Parliament, whereby MM. Briand and Caillaux will he granted full powers to carry out financial reforms, after which Parliament will adjourn until the autumn. Tho hammer blows of retrenchment and economy will immediately begin. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states..that M. Qaillaux is credited with readiness to take the sternest measures against opposition to his plaifs. The question remains how such action will tje received by the Left, of whom the majority of the Cabinet is composed and the Chamber, which has always Parliament’s prerogatives. A reliable French correspondent states: “M. Caillaux has many enemies among the members of the I/eft owing to his financial doctrines and authoritative temper. It is known that he wanted M. Briand to make General Parde War Minister. He is the true army typo of politician. M. Briand’s appointment of M. Guillaumat as War Minister was an act of statesmanship.” The Daily Express frankly' describes M. Caillaux as dictator, and says: “He wanted a man of his own choice for the War. Office so, it is whispered, that he might have ,an army with him in the event later . of deciding on a coup d’etat. . He also wanted to nominate the Minister of the Interior, saying: ‘Thus shall I be able to maintain order in the street and country.’ M. Caillaux believes that the restrictions he contemplates may lead to disorders and strikes, and lie is determined that the first strike shall be immediately broken.” The Morning Post states that M. Caillaux laid down his policy speech on Sunday, in which he declared that the stabilisation of the franc was inevitable. If preparations were not made now, it would be stabilised at a much lower figure.—A. and N.Z. cable.