NEW CABINET WELL RECEIVED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 9

NEW CABINET WELL RECEIVED

POLITICAL CHANGES IN FRANCE STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF LABOUR United Press Association —By Electro Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, June 23. With the natural exception of the extreme Right newspapers, the Chautemps Government has been well received. It is believed its main difference from M. Blum’S will be the treatment of finance. M. Chautemps, in a statement said the most urgent task was obviously financial recovery. "I have not hesitated to recall my friend M. Bonnet, who has already been a collaborator, and whose financial abilities are not questioned.” It is expected that the new Government, which includes only six not in M. Blum's Cabinet, will receive a comfortable majority both in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate. M. Chautemps, according to “Le Temps,” intends to return to sound liberal orthodoxy, with the object of rekindling confidence, as after'a too rapid social evolution, the edifice must be consolidated.

PERSONNEL OF CABINET

RETURN OF RADICAL CONTROL United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright (Received June 24, 9.10 p.m.) PARIS, June 24. The new French Cabinet is as follows : Prime Minister and President of the Council, M. Camille Chautemps (Radical). Vice-President of the Council, M. Leon Blum (Socialist). Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Yvonne Delbos (Radical.. Minister for Justice, M. Vincent Aurlol (Socialist). Minister for Interior, M. Dormoy (Socialist). Minister for Finance, M. Bonnet (Radical). Minister for War, M. M. E. Daladier (Radical). Minister for Marine, M. Campinchi (Radical). Minister for Air, M. Pierre Cot (Radical). Minister for Public Works, M. Queuile (Radical). Minister for Agriculture, M. Georges Monnet (Socialist). Minister for National Education, M. Jean Zay (Radical). Minister for Labour, M. Fevrier (Socialist). Minister for Colonies, M. Marius Moutet (Socialist). Minister for Commerce, M. Chapsale i Radical). Minister for Posts. Telephone, and Telegraphs, M. J. B. Lebas (Socialist). Minister for Public Health, M. Marc Rucuit (Radical). Minister for Pensions, M. Albert Riviere (Socialist). Ministers without Portfolio, M. Paul Faure (Socialist); M. Maurice Violette (Dissident Socialist); M. Sarraut (Radical). Under Secretaries of State, M. Tesson (Radical): M. Bertrand (Radical). The Radicals control foreign affairs, defence and finance.

M. Chautemps was bom in Paris in February, 1885, His father was the former Colonial Minister and VicePresident of the Senate. He studied law and practised first in Paris and then in Tours.

He became a member of the RadicalSocialist Party and sat for Indre-et-Loire. At first a supporter of M. Poincare, he changed his views and in June, 1924, joined M. Herriot’s Cabinet as Minister for the Interior. He was not a member of the Painleve Government (April 1925), but on Its reconstruction in October, 1925, he was made Minister of Justice. When M. Briand took office on November 28 of that year M. Chautemps became once more Minister for the Interior. His chief task was the introduction of an electoral reform bill. During the debates on M. Doumer's financial proposals he and two other Radical Socialists failed to support the Government several times when it came to a vote. The Cabinet was defeated in March, 1926, and when M. Briand formed a new Government M. Chautemps was not included.

One-Day Cabinets

He was destined later to participate in the making of two parliamentary records. In M. Herriot’s Ministry of a day—July 29, 1926—he was Minister for the Interior, and the Cabinet he formed in 1930 provided a parallel case. The Chamber defeated it on the day it was presented—February 25. M. Tardieu’s Government had been thrown out on one vote on a taxation issue—largely by the RadicalSocialists whom M. Chautemps led in the Chamber. He was therefore called on to form a Cabinet, but could not get the support of the parties on his Right. In December, 1930. M. Chautemps who had succeeded M. Daladier as leader of the Radicals, joined the Stoeg Cabinet as Minister for Education, but it fell on January 22, 1931. He was Minister for the Interior in M. Herriot’s Government of June, 1932. When it resigned in December because of the Chamber’s refusal to sanction a debt payment to the United States, M. Chautemps was invited to form a Cabinet, but failed to do so. He then resumed his post of Minister for the Interior in the short-lived Paul-Boncour Government and held it in that of M. Daladier, which followed on January 31, 1933, and In M. Sarraut’s Cabinet of October. 1933. When it fell on November 27. M. Chautemps became Prime Minister and secured the passing of the Budget.

The Stavisky Affair

At the end of the year came the Stavisky financial swindle, in which the public lost huge sums, and the flight and suicide of the swindler. M. Chautemps announced in the

Chamber that his proposals included complete reorganisation of the police, closer control of the criminal Courts and protection of public savings. He declared that people in high places would be punished ruthlessly even if they were his own friends. He secured a vote of confidence, but renewed attacks forced the Minister for Justice, M. Ravnaldy, out of office, and were also directed against M. Bonnet, the Finance Minister. The sequel was the resignation of the Cabinet on January 27, 1934.

In his early days, M. Chautemps was a keen footballer, and once played for France in an international Rugby match.