CRISIS IN FRANCE.
RESIGNATION OF CABINET NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHEME. SOCIALISTS HOLD ALOOF. United l*ress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright
PARIS, Jan. 13
When the members of the Cabinet took this action to facilitate the reshuffling process and the formation of a National Government they little thought their action, in a few hours, would lead to the end of the Ministry. M. Laval had been authorised by the Cabinet to construct a Government of National Union so that the country might face the Lausanne Conference unitedly. He consulted his opponets, the chief of whom is M. Herriot, who, with his following of 125 Radical Socialist deputies, held the key to the position. The Prime Minister offered M. Herriot the portfolio of Foreign Affairs and a fair proportion of other appointments. M. Herriot consulted his party, by whom the invitation was deolined. „ .. , The reason given by the Radical Socialists for their attitude was that they were not convinced that the foreign'situation justified broadening the basis of the Cabinet. Nevertheless, M. Herriot emphasised the point that he placed the national interests above party Interests. In the face of this reverse M. Laval Visited the President,-M. Doumer, and tendered his own and his Ministers resignations. 7
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18534, 14 January 1932, Page 7
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