IN THE MELTING-POT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 14 October 1938, Page 7

IN THE MELTING-POT

FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY THE NEED FOR UNITY. HOW TO BE ACHIEVED? LONDON, Oct. 12. The trend of French domestic policy is attracting increasing attention in the Press. The Paris Corespondent of The Times sees a widening tendency to count the cost of the Munich agreement. Even the large section which has hitherto demanded “peace at any price” is becoming increasingly anxious as to the future orientation of foreign policy. The need for unity is everywhere accepted as the first essential to France’s continued existence as a first-class Power, but how this can be achieved no one is able to say. The Paris correspondent of the News Chronicle states that foreign policy is in the melting-pot. The internal political structure is shaken to the core and the Popular Front is morally extinct. M. Flandin, who forecase this situation, lost his opportunity through his pro-Nazi leanings during the crisis. The Premier, M. Daladier, has till November 15 to hammer out a new policy, but many people expect that the Daladier-Bon-net combination will collapse before then. DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS. LONDON, Oct. 12. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press has learned that Cabinet has approved the appointment of M. Poncet as Ambassador in Rome, that M. Coulondre is being transferred from Moscow to Berlin, and that M. Rene Massigli, of the Foreign Office, is to be the new Ambassador in Turkey.