'TEAM OF BUNGLERS’

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 930, 28 November 1933, Page 1

'TEAM OF BUNGLERS’

Press Comment on New French Ministry. CHANGE OF CAPTAIN ONLY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 28, 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, November 27. M. Chautemps w’ill introduce a measure to abolish the exchange compensation tax in response to British representations. He proposes to meet Parliament with the minimum of delay and with the shortest ministerial declaration in history, and to drive the Financial Bill through the Chamber at a full gallop. He declared that the Government had only one aim, the restoration of the finances, and the maintenance of security. It had only one means to that end, determination. The Press criticises M. Chautemps’s Ministry. The “ Echo de Paris ” declares that since 1932 “ a team of bunglers have been in command. It has been chased out four times and reappears for a fifth time with a change of captain.” NEW FRENCH CABINET. Financial Restoration is Urgent Task. PARIS, November 27. M. Camille Chautemps accepted the Premiership after M. Edouard Herriot had declined on the grounds of illhealth. M. Chautemps will hold the portfolio of the Interior, and there is little change in the remainder of the Cabinet. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour will remain at the Foreign Office, M. Edward Daladier at the War Office and M. Georges Bonnet in charge of finance. The other posts are practically the same as in M. Sarraut’s Cabinet. The Government will be mainly Radical and will be dependent for its majority on the Centre. The most urgent task will be financial restoration, in which the Socialists are not prepared to co-operate, in accordance with Radical vi:ws. However most of the parties seem to realise that the massacre of Cabinets cannot continue. M. Tardieu, speaking in the Chamber, vigorously attacked the Left Wing Governments which had ruled France recently, declaring that they had led the country to the brink of bankruptcy and war. lie refrained from attacking the Radicals directly, suggesting that they might be included in a National Union Ministry similar to M. Poincare’s in 1926. He concluded by saving that France could not live in the present state of Europe with Ministries that lasted only three weeks.