FRENCH CABINET

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 97, 23 March 1940, Page 8

FRENCH CABINET

UNCHANGED POLICY, PROSECUTION OF AVAIL (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PARIS, March 20. M. Daladier told a meeting of Radical Socialist senators and deputies that he would reoccupv a seat on the party bench and exert his energies (or the defence of the country. ’The meeting passed a. resolution of confideifce in M. Daladier. Recovering from the dramatic impact of the crisis, the public recognises that it does not indicate a weakening of the nation’s will for victory. On the contrary, it is interpreted as a sign for a general demand for more energetic conduct of the war. The writer of a vigorous article in the Intransigeant asks why M. Daladier, who undoubtedly is popular ami commanded a big following in Parliament, lost power overnight. “The answer is the Finnish affair,” he said, “which aroused the public because Finland’s defeat seemed to be our defeat. It is no good having new men unless they bring a new policy. The new Government must adopt M. Clemenccau’s four-word programme ‘Je fais la guerre’ (I make the war) which has often been quoted but seldom applied in the last six months. The French official evening communique states: “There is activity ot reconnaissance units on the British front and there have been encounter-, between patrols, which ended to the entire advantage of the Allies.”