FRENCH POLICY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 2

FRENCH POLICY

TRUCE WITH M. BLUM COMMUNISTS YIELD LONDON, Sept. 11. “Peace, or, rather, an .armistice of uncertain duration, is restored between the Premier of France, ,M. Blum, and the Communists,” according to the Paris correspondent of The Times. “The agitation for a change in the Government’s policy of neutrality in Spain is abandoned, but the sting has gone out. “Faced with the throat of a reckless minority movement, M- Bfuni has broken the attack by an appeal to the common sense of French workmen, and by a, veiled threat, to transfer the whole issue to the Parliamentary sphere. The Communists yielded more or less graeefuly to the majority of the Popular ;Front. They are nowengaged in repairing the damage by a display of politeness to the Socialist Party. The not result of the exchanges is that the Communist campaign against the Government’s Spanish policy takes on the aspect of an expression of opinion , instead of a threat, tn the Government. “The future relations of the Communists with. M. Blum depend on the true motives of their agitation, and if they were only expressing. their own opinions, little harm lias been done, but if, as many believe, they were obeying orders from Moscow, if the Soviet. dictator, M. Stalin, is really capable of pushing France into a quarrel with Germany for his oivn purposes, anti if the secretary of the French Communist Party, M. Tlioroz, and his colleagues are committed to partake in this enterprise, the truce will not. last for long, and they will soon find another bone of contention.”