FRENCH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1924, Page 3

FRENCH POLITICS.

THE I'll F.XCiI ELECTIONS

A CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW

[“Tire Times” Service.]

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON. April G. The Paris correspondent of the, ‘Times” discussing the. French elec-

tion prospects, says the country, generally. undoubtedly supports the foreign policy of the new Govei limeiil, ami it is the foreign and not the domestic policy which will he the tirincipal issue. Tlie French people u»e Hilly [icrsumled that Germany is wilfully and fraudulently evading her reparation obligations, with the result that they are now saddled with heavy new taxation to make up the Budget deficits. which, otherwise, would not have *irisen. They u-k that Germany shall he made to pay and they approve ot the occupation of the Ruhr as a means of exerting pressure on Germany and compelling her to line up. Reparations and Allied problems are hound to be uppermost in the minds ot electors when they go in lhe polls oil the 1 1 Lli of May. The high hopes winch the opponents of the. Government entertained at the beginning of the year of lighting the election on the domestic aliairs issue seem doomed to disappoint. For these and other reasons M. I’oiueare is almost certain to be returned with a substantial majority.