NEW FRENCH LEADER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 903, 21 February 1930, Page 11

NEW FRENCH LEADER

ATTEMPT AT RADICAL MINISTRYINVITATION TO TARDIEU

United P. A. — By Telegraph — Copyright Reed. 1.30 p.m. PARIS, Thursday. The Radical leader. M. Camille Chautamps. has undertaken to attempt to form a Ministry. He invited M. Tardieu to join him and retain the direction of the naval delegation, but the latter has reserved his reply. FRANCE THE WRECKER? COMMENT IN ENGLAND “SHE WILL NOT BUDGE” LONDON. Wednesday. A dispatch from Paris says M. Tardieu had sufficiently recovered from his attack of influenza today to visit the President. M. Doumergue. He declined an invitation to form a new Cabinet. Also he declined to act again as delegate to the Naval Conference in London if asked to do so. For M. Tardieu’s successor it is believed the President will summon M. Camille Chautemps, head of the Parliamentary group of the Radical Party, who was mainly responsible for the defeat of the Government. The “Daily News” asks what M. Tardieu’s refusal to return to the. Naval Conference will mean. Does France really intend to fill the role of wrecker, it asks? Apparently she will not budge unless she can obtain some sort of security on the sea at the expense of Britain, such as she obtained on the land in the Locarno agreements. This kind of political blackmail has no place at the conference, remarks the “News.** France for too long has been the “spoilt child” of European politics.