The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY. MARCH 15. 1926. FRENCH POLIIICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1926, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY. MARCH 15. 1926. FRENCH POLIIICS.

M. liitu.vn. who has been nine times Premier of France, has formed another Ministry. The changes in French Governments, remarks the •‘Lyttelton Times,'’ come so rapidly and m» continuously that, it is difficult to follow them, and there appears to lv„> good ground for the American view that ‘‘.trench Ministries do not succeed. They only succeed each other.” In the latest Rriaud Cabinet is a Minister, who during the filial stages of the Great War was exiled from France lor a term of live years. M. Malvv is the second French exile to reach Cabinet rank of recent years. M. C'aillaux, lot m'erly Minister of Finance, was exiled during the war, and his name was mentioned as one of the aspirants to the Premiership. M. Malvv is a close political friend of M. Caillaux, and was a member of the Ribol Cabinet in 1917. Grave charges were brought against, him of “intelligence with the enemy” and lie was compelled to resign. Tu 1918 lie was tried before the Senate, sitting as High Court of Justice, and. though the charge of high treason was rejected the ex-Ministor was found guilty of having “neglected, violated and betrayed his trust in conditions constituting dereliction, of duty.” The Court held that M. Malvy had subsidised a paper whose editors were found guilty of having intelligence with the enemy, and that lie gave instructions .suspending penal action in favour of notorious anarchists. He was .sentenced to live years’ banishment and spent liis exile in Spain. Last year he rein rued to France and was soon elected to the Chamber of Deputies. It was rumoured that M. Herriot, when Premier of France, intended to appoint M. Malvy to the post of Ambassador to Spain, hut the immediate signs of opposition were sufficient to show that such a step would he inadvisable. However, in tho whirligig of party politics the former exile has again reached Cabinet rank.