FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.

Attempt to Form Ministry,

INVITATION TO M. TARDIEU. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PARIS, February 20. The Radical leader. M. Chautemps, has undertaken to attempt to form a Ministry, and has invited M. Tardieu to join and to retain the direction of the naval delegation. M. Tardieu has reserved his reply.

NEW MINISTRY SUBMITTED. WILL HAVE SOCIALISTS’ SUPPORT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 21, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, February 21. M. Chautemps, securing M. Briand’s assurance of co-operation, submitted a Ministry to President Doumergue as follows: M. Chautemps, Premier of the Interior. M. Briand, Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Doladier, Minister of War. M. Sarraut, Minister of Marine. M. Dumont. Minister of Finance. M. Queuille, Minister of Agriculture. M. Ricorfi, Minister of Pensions. M. Flaudin, Minister of Commerce. M. Loucheur, Minister of Public Works. M. Pietri. Minister of Colonies. The Ministry’s political complexion is Radical and Left Centre. It will have the support of the Socialists, but it remains to be seen what majority it will command in the Chamber. The new Premier was a former Rugby international. He Is 45 years of age, is a barrister of agreeable manners, and is regarded as a man of moderate views, but has been known to show firmness in the past. M. Tardieu, in declining to enter M. Chautemps’s Cabinet, declared that events did not permit of collaboration. This might be interpreted as disavowal of a majority, whereby his Government has been faithfully defended in international actions at the Hague and London, but he assured M. Chautemps that he would support any Government taking the same line as himself at the Naval Conference.

MAJORITY OF ONE ONLY. DEFEx4.T OF TARDIEU GOVERNMENT. (United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 21, 8.2 p.m.) PARIS, February 21. An official correction show’s that the Tardieu Government was defeated by a majority of only one, not five.