FRENCH CABINET
CHOICE OF DE GAULLE COMMUNISTS’ FIVE POSTS Recd. 6 p.m. Paris, Nov. 21. General de Gaulle has lormed a coalition Government, giving the Communists live Cabinet posts, including the newly-created Ministry oi Armaments. The Cabinet is as follows: President and Chief of Armies Charged with Defence. General de Gaulle; Minister for Armies under General de Gaulle: M. Armand Michelet (M.R.P.); Minister of Aimaments: M. Charles Tillon (Communist); Minister of Foreign Affairs: M. Georges Nidbault (M.R.P.i; Minister of the Interior: M Andrien Tixier (Socialist); Minister of National Economy: M. Francois Billoux (Communist): Minister of Finance: M. Rene Pleven (Republican Socialist); Minister of Industrial Production: M. Marcel Paul (Communist); Minister of Agriculture and Food: M. Pierre Prigent (Socialist); Minister of Public Works and Transport: M. Jules Moch (Socialist).
Ministers of State without Portfolios: M. Vincent Auriol (Socialist); M. Francisque Gay (M.R.P.); M. Louis Jacquinot (Rightist); and M. Maurice Thorez (Communist); Minister of Justice: M. Pierre Tietgen (M.R.P.); Minister of Labour: M. Ambroise Croizat (Communist); Minister of Education: M. Paul Giaccobi (Radical Socialist); Minister of Colonies: M. Jacques Soustelle (Radical Socialist); Minister of Posts and Telegraphs; M. Eugene Thomas (Socialist); Minister of Population (new ministry); M. Robert Prigent (M.R.P.); Minister of Reconstruction; M. Paul Dautry (Independent); Minister of Information: M. Andre Malraux (Independent). PACIFYING COMMUNISTS. The Newspaper. “Combat," says: “The risks of civil war are real. If it breaks' out it will be all the more terrible and made because confusion will have fostered it. To-day the only way to put it down is to put the Communists in power.” A correspondent, says that the new Cabinet is what the Assembly wanted it to be—a fair reflection of the strength of the parties and so a fair reflection of the country itself.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 277, 23 November 1945, Page 5
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