GOVERNMENT DEFEAT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 671, 25 October 1933, Page 5

GOVERNMENT DEFEAT

(Press Assu.-

RADICAL AMENDMENT CARRIED ON SALARY REDUCTION ISSUE M. DALADIER RESIGNS The French political crisis came to a head during the debate on the budcret when the Daladier Government was defeated' on a Radical amendment. The Socialist Left voted against the Government on the question of proposed salary reductions but a meeting of the party before the division indicated a split even in the ranks of the Socialists. Ministers Iater hand'ed in their resignatipns to the President.

— By Telegraph — Copyright) .

(Rec. 7 p.m.) Paris, October 24. M. Daladier in his speech in the Chamber. of Deputies, lost no time and wasted no words. He said that France had already devalued her currency by four-fifths and now she must keep it intact. "If you overthrow the Government," he said. "You will not solve the problem. The next Government will be required to face similar obstables and if you smash that too, what will happen?" After the Premier's speech, the sitting wras suspended. The atmosphere in the Chamber was feverish. The Socialists, after a hasty meeting. decided by 55 votes to 45 (with eight absentions) against ac- | ceptance of a compromise offered by the Government in regard to salary cuts. This decision increased the prospects of the Government's defeat.