Laval's Fate Sealed

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 300, 20 December 1935, Page 13

Laval's Fate Sealed

DEFEAT CERTAIN IN NEXT DEBATE Received Midnight, Thursday. LONDON, Dec. 19. The News-Chronicle’s Paris correspondent says M, Herriot’s resignation from the Radical-Social leadership makes tho defeat of the Laval Government virtually certain after the Foreign Affairs debate on December 27. Leading members of the party throughout have demanded stronger support for Britain over the League sanctions and many voted against M. Laval on Tuesday. Others only refrained out of loyalty to M. Herriot as a member of the Cabinet. Without Herri.ot the Radicals, who have a majority vote in the Chamber, have little reason for longer supporting Laval.

M. Herriot Resigns Party Leadership Received Thursday, 9.50 p.iu. PARIS, Dec. IS. M. Herriot resigned the leadership of the powerful Radical Socialist Party following a stonily meeting of the party executive, in which the peace proposals were bitterly criticised, and M. Laval was violently attacked. M. Herriot complained that the these attacks uffccted him as a member of the Cabinet. Ho defended M. Laval, saying his one aim was to preserve peace. Political Crisis of First Magnitude RESIGNATION BECAME IRRESISTIBLE Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Dee,' 18. It is thought Sir Austcu Chamberlain or Mr, Anthony Eden will succeed Sir Samuel Hoare. The Times says Sir Samuel Hoare’s decision was tko inevitable consequence of an error, excusable iu a man but not in a Minister. By his resignation he accepted responsibility for the proposals which, in any case, were doomed. The Manchester Guardian says Sir Samuel Hoare’s resignation had become irresistible; ho had to go. A third of the members of Cabinet were threatening to resign if the peace plan was not repudiated. The Daily Mail, in a leader, regards Sir Samuel's resignation as precipitating a political crisis of the first magnitudt?, adding that Sir Samuel’s departure will be widely regretted. If his resignation means tho peace proposals were rejected, owing to pressure on .Ministers to throw him over, utter confusion will result. If Mr. Baldwin abandons tho peace plan, the nation will be back in the trap, which course oniv the wildest fanatics can desire.