CABINET RESIGNS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 9 November 1934, Page 7

CABINET RESIGNS

DISAGREEMENT IN FRANCE.

RADICALS ABANDON PREMIER

M. DOUMERGUE’S COMMENT,

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 9, 9.10 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 8. The Cabinet has resigned.

M. Le Brun (the President) asked M. Laval to form a new Cabinet, but M. Laval declined. The Premiership was then offered to M. Flandin, who accepted it. The letter containing the resignation, signed by SIM. Herriot, Berthous, Bertrand, and Qeuville, strongly attacks the selfishness of the Radicals, and says a truce could not consist of bowing before the exigencies of a party which had held complete power from February 6, and subordinating decisions solely to that party’s pleasure. Tlie retiring Premier, M. Doumergue, stated: At least six Ministers abandoned me; I cannot govern with a minority. The Radicals justify their resignations on the ground that M. Doumergue had not consulted them oil the vital constitutional reforms. “While I do not fear elections, I consider them inopportune. I do not desire to deliberate under the double menace of riots and dissolution,” M. Doumergue remarked.

STERN PRESS COMMENT.

“OUR POLITICAL MORALS ARE BAD.”

Received November 9, 10.5 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 8. Headed, “Dropping the Pilot,” L’lntransigeant publishes as bitter an editorial as has ever been printed in France.

“Thus, suddenly, the pilot had curses rained on him from all sides. He was sent for when the ship was about to sink and stoically consented to resume an exhausting and perilous job. We cannot blame -him whatever for the dangers his departure entails. We kill our own men.

“Here was a Premier attempting a great task, but immediately he wants to work he is ceaselessly harassed . by over a hundred unimportant questions being tabled. Our political morals are bad. We praise great servants of the State only when they are in their graves, whither we send them before their time!”

FRENCH EX-SERVICEMEN

WARNING TO PARLIAMENT,

FEARS OF DISORDERS.

PARIS, Nov. 8. “If Parliament and the parties com‘mit the crime of returning to their old intrigues, the nation will not forgive them. Let Parliament beware. Its attitude to-day will decide between peace and war. If it is to be war, there will be civil war first.”

This ultimatum was delivered by M. Rocque, chief of the Fiery Cross League, the strongest ex-servicemen’s association in the country. “I am not speaking for a mere list of 200,000 names, but for men of heart and resolution ready to act at a minute’s notice,” he said.

This declaration strongly affected the Bourse, where many fear the crisis will lead to disorders as bad as those of February. Government stocks slurnped heavily.