UNION OF PARTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 5

UNION OF PARTIES

IN FRENCH POLITICS M. BRIAND APPEALS FOR GREAT REFORM. W Telezraph-PrcM AModßtlon-Copyrltbj (Received December 23, 0.10 a.m.) PARIS, December 22. The newspapers note that certain l developments in French politics are tending gradually to unite opposing groups into two largo parties, similar to those in Britain. M. Briand, late Prime Minister, is the leader of the movement, and inaugurated an important electoral campaign by addressing a gathering of 2000 of his constituents at Saint Etienne. He was accorded repeated ovations.

M. Briand vigorously denounced the new Cabinet on the ground of insincerity and inconsistency. He described his own position as standing between the Right and tbs extreme Left. The latter he described as the party of revolution. He appealed to. his hearers to work for tho realisation, of a Republic in which tho Government would he at the service of all Frenchmen and from which the harsh tyranny of local personalities and) parish pump interests would he banished as effectively as the great Revolution had ended the reign of personal central despotism.