SOCIALISTS’ SUPPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 9

SOCIALISTS’ SUPPORT.

CONDITIONAL PROMISE,

Received Januarv 19, 8.5 a.m. PARIS, Jan. 18. The Socialist meeting to-day decided to support M. Chautemps’s all-Radical Cabinet provided it retains the Popular Front programme. The Communists passed a motion opposing M. Chautemps’s Cabinet.

M. Chautemps’s Government resigned on January 14 in consequence of the fact that the Socialist Ministers had left it. It was reported that M. Sarraut had been called on, M. Daladier, Minister of War in the Chautemps Cabinet, having refused to form a Government. The task was then placed before M. Bonnet, Minister of Finance in the Chautemps Cabinet, blit M. Blum and the Socialists refused to support him. President Lebrun then asked M. Sarraut to form a Popular Front Government, apparently with no success. The appeal to M. Blum, the former Popular Front Premier, met with the result reported above*. Last October the Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian declared that the Chautemps Government had to face two threats, the Radical Congress at Lille, which might try to detach the Radicals from the Front Populaire, and the National Council of i the Socialist Party, which might find that the association of the Socialists with M. Georges Bonnet had lasted long enough. The Government survived the Radical Congress, and it was believed (reported the Manchester Guardian) that M. Blum would endeavour to persuade his colleague# to leave M. Chautemps in office because of the fear that he might be followed by a “National Government.”