MILLERAND’S MESSAGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19034, 11 June 1924, Page 5

MILLERAND’S MESSAGE

SEMI-OFFICIAL FORECAST “PARLIAMENT ALONE CAN DECIDE” The French President’s message to Parliament will be brief and to the point. He will outline the constitutional consequences which would follow acquiescence in the New Majority’s claims, and will contend that Parliament alone can decide the question of the Presidency. j I Received June 10. 10.30 p.m. PARIS, June 9. According to a semi-official forecast, M. Milleiand’s message to Parliament will briefly review events since his assumption of the Presidency, recalling that as President he has invariably pursued a policy of social progress and agreement at home and abroad, and that .ill Cabinets to which he entrusted power have been coalition ones, in winch members of the Left have participated. He will deck re that his attitude has always cor.tormed to the constitutional prerogative, and will point cut that th? New Majority has made it impossible for the head of the State to exercise his mandate. Such interference is inadmissible. He asserts that subordination of the powers of the head of the State to celctoral fluctuations would result in creating a precedent fraught with incalculable consequences. He concludes: “Parliament alone can decide the question of the Presidency. ’ ’