ANTI-GOVERNMENT FEELING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 302, 19 November 1938, Page 2

ANTI-GOVERNMENT FEELING.

* FRENCH DECREES OPPOSED

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LONDON, Nov. 18. . Street demonstrations in Paris against M. Reynaud’s recovery decrees occurred last night when 2000 jieople assembled in the Place d’ltalia shouting “Down with the decrees!” “ltesign, Daladier!” “Resign lteynaud!” Police dispersed the demonstrators after arresting 13. The News-Chronicle’s Paris correspondent asserts that resistance to the decrees lias already reached proportions making the fall of the Daladier Ministry on the reassembly of Parliament almost a foregone conclusion. The Socialist and Communist parties are demanding their immediate withdrawal. The Confederation of Trade Unions has fixed November 26 as a j “day of national protest.” There is also renewed talk of a general strike, but the Parris correspondent of the Times says responsible leaders of the confederation are completely opposed to such a step. M. Daladier, in a speech at a journalists’ banquet, admitted that the decrees meant sacrifices, but they were I necessary for France’s economic recovery. He added: “I snap my fingers at opponents’ intrigues and manoeuvres. I despise their threats. They !will neither succeed in breaking the Government’s will nor in stopping Fiance’s momentum to recovery.” PREMIER’S APPEAL. Received November 19, 12.30 p.m. PARIS, Nov. 18. The Premier (M Daladier), addressing the Radical Party, declared: “If we want a crisis I am ready to resign. Throw over the Government if you wish, but do not undermine it.”