FRENCH POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18455, 17 January 1922, Page 5

FRENCH POLITICS

M. POINCARE'S CABINET. ATTEMPT AT COALITION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, PARIS, January 14. Official: M. Poincare has reconstructed the Ministry as follows: M. Poincare will bo Prime Minister and Minister of»Foreign Affairs. M. Barthou will b© Minister of Justice. 51. Maginot will be Minister of War. Four more of M. Briand’s colleagues (MM. Berard, Sarraut, Dior, and Le Trocquer) have not changed their portfolios. M. Raiberti .will be Minister of Marine. M. Ileibel will bo Minister of the Liberated Regions. M. Berard declined the portfolios of Health and Labour. M. Poincare has allotted these positions respectively to M. Strauss and M. Peyfonnet. PARIS, January 16.. (Received Jan. 16, at 7.30 p.m.) _ M. Poincare completed his Cabinet ''after some disappointments in an attempt to form a sort of coalition embracing the leading Radicals_ in addition to M, Tardieu. the ablest ’of M. Clcmenceau s followers. It is reported that M. .Tardieu’s refusal bordered on insolence. , MM. Boumergue, Hernot, and Viviani, the strongest parliamentarians belonging to the Left, refused despite much pressure.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [ln the Briand Cabinet. M. Barthou was Minister of War, 1 M.' Maginot Minister of Pensions; M. Berard Minister of Education, M. Sarraut Colonial. Minister, M. Dior Minister of Commerce, and M. La Trocquer Miniter of Public Works.] , , 1 M. POINCARE IN OFFICE. ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT. MODIFIED POLICY DESIRED. LONDON, January 16. (Received Jan. 16, at 7.30 p.m.) While most of the newspapers have expfeezed the hope iHiat M. Poincare, in office, would modify the policy of his extremist writings, wherein he demanded France's full pound of flesh under the treaty, the Daily (Express stated that to M. Briand and a sober France facing facts and discarding illusions England was prepared to make many concessions for the maintenance of a permanent friendship. French Chauvinism could not expect such a pliant mood. A pact on their terms was not attractive. They spoke for agricultural France, ignoring the commercial needs of other countries. If France so desired she might pursue her reparations, build her submarines, and march into Ruhr with bankruptcy behind and ruin in front, but she wotrid march alone. —A. and N.Z. Cable. GERMAN PRESS VIEW. “WAIT AND SEE.” BERLIN, March 16. (Received Jan. 16, at 7.30 p.m.) Official circles are inclined to welcome M. Poincare’s accession on the ground that it will bring to a head the battle between the French Chauvinists and Germany. Herr Stresmann, the leader of the People’s Party, states: “We are anxious to see whether M. Poincare rattles the sabre and threatens to march into Germany, or is compelled to accept what all the world except the Trench nationalists want —namely, world cohesion.” —A. and N. Gable. ( t