FALL LIKELY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23199, 19 November 1938, Page 15

FALL LIKELY

FRENCH CABINET ECONOMIC DECREES PUBLIC liESISTANCE DALADIER DETERMINED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received November 18, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 18" Street demonstrations in Paris against the economic decrees of M. Reynaud, Minister of Finance, took place last night, when 2000 people assembled in the Place d'ltalie, shouting: "Down with the decrees! Resign Daladier! Resign, Reynaud!" Police dispersed the demonstrators after arresting 13. The News Chronicle's Paris correspondent asserts that resistance to the decrees has 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 the immediate withdrawal of the Confederation of Trades Unions and have fixed Nov. 26 as a "day of national protest." There is also renewed talk of a general strike, but the Times' Paris correspondent 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 were necessary for France's economic recovery. He added: "I snap my fingers at my opponents' intrigues and manoeuvres. I despise their threats. They will neither succeed in breaking the Government's will nor in stopping France's momentum to recovery."