WHAT POINCARE WANTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19389, 26 July 1926, Page 9

WHAT POINCARE WANTS

FREE HAND FOR TWO YEARS. RELIEF FROM POLITICAL STRIFE. (Received 6-5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Reuter. PARIS, July 25. The Council pf Ministers has issued a pressing appeal to the public to pay this year's taxes immediately without waiting for the customary notices. Few Cabinets have received such a general blessing as that bestowed by the morning newspapers on M. Poincare's administration, which is being popularly called "The Ministry of the Franc." There is a general sigh of relief that a Government has at last been formed which looks like weathering the storm and salving the financial situation. Politics are for the moment forgotten, except for a few minor criticisms such as comment on the inclusion in the Cabinet of MM. Herriot and Painleve. Opinion, however, is by no means unanimous." In forecasting the Government's financial programme the most startling "intention" predicted is that attributed to M. Poincare by the newspaper Le Journal. This is that he intends to ask Parliament, to agree to a prorogation for two years during which period the Government would legislate by decree. The Premier's argument is that the trouble of the frajic cannot be cured overnight and that it needs three or four years of complete rest and relief from political strife.