ACUTE CRISIS IN FRANCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12503, 20 July 1926, Page 7

ACUTE CRISIS IN FRANCE

HERRIOT UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED IN FORMING CABINET MORE TALK OF DICTATORSHIP PEOPLE GROWING TIRED OF POLITICAL WRANGLINGS By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Australian and New Zealand Cable Association. (Received July 19, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, July 19. The political crisis is very serious. M. Herriot will continue his negotiations for a cabinet till Monday. He hopes to form a purely Left government, as M. Marin, leader of the moderate Right, refuses to serve in a Herriot combination. The only means by which Herriott can win over the extreme Socialists is to introduce a capital levy, which the Senate would certainly reject, consequently a dissolution may be essential to a settlement. Mr Martin Donohue says: “Writing in the possession of important information, I can say the French Republic to-night is nearer a military dictatorship than it has been for 55 years. Parliamentary government has completely failed, and the road is open for a French Mussolini, backed by the army.” LONDON, July 18. Some Paris correspondents fear trouble, both in the city and in the provinces, over M. Briand’s defeat. It is significant that a section of the crowd hissed M. Herriot outside the Elysee, and an angry mob had to be dispersed outside the Chamber of Deputies. “Le Journal” demands that the Chamber shall “end this game of massacre, which has lasted over long.” “La Volante” rges a dissolution, and warns the President that if he is deaf to the clamour of all classes he may find the storm heating down even the doors of the Elysee. The “Daily Herald” correspondent comments on the failure of M. Caillaux’s ruse to divide the Opposition with the threat of the capital levy. When the division was taken, the 195 Socialists, Communists, and Radicals were joined by 66 Republicans and 27 Independents from the Right, and ousted the Government. Only the Communists cheered; the others were anxiously silent.