FORMING NEW PARTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 13

FORMING NEW PARTY

FRENCH RADICAL LEADER SUDDEN RESIGNATION i By Cable. —Press Association .— Copyright. PARIS, Thursday. I M. Franklin Bouillon, who strenuously, but unsuccessfully, tried to induce the Radical Party Conference to l continue to support M. Poincare’s National Union Coalition, caused a political sensation in the Chamber of Deputies when he resigned from the Radical Party and also the presidency of the Foreign Affairs Committee. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says M. Bouillon is forming a new party, to be entitled the Radical Unionist, which will be devoted to the maintenance of the National Union as being essential to the security of France. The organisations in the provinces will probably follow suit, which will inaugurate the most important political split for 30 years. M. Bouillon says the Radical Socialists have repudiated National Union, which has saved France from disaster, inasmuch as they allied themselves unconditionally with the Socialists, who are committed to the support of the evacuation of the Rhineland, and to Germany’s absorption of Austria. This, he says, would be very dangerous to France, as it would certainly ensure a war within 10 years.—A. and N.Z. RELEASED FROM GAOL IMPRISONED DEPUTIES PARIS, Thursday. Immediately the Chamber reassembled after the vacation, a Communist, M. Garchery, moved for the release of the Communist deputies, MM. Cachin, Doriot, Marty and Duclos, to enable them to attend to their Parliamentary duties. A Socialist, M. Barou, supported the motion and declared the deputies owed duties to the electors which they could not fulfil while in prison. A Conservative, M. Maginot, said it would be a disgrace if men convieted of encouraging soldiers to defy the : Government’s authority were not allowed to serve just sentences. A Ministerialist, M. Barthou, ad- j mitted the anti-military propaganda of the Communists was a national danger, but pointed out that the release of the deputies did not commit j the Chamber to approval of the action. The motion was carried by 264 votes to 221. Within two hours of the passing of -j the motion the Deputies were released. Special precautions were taken to avoid the repetition of the hoax by which the Royalist leader, M. Leon Daudet, was released from the same j prison.—A. and N.Z.