NEW FRENCH CABINET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 1

NEW FRENCH CABINET

EARLIER ALLOCATIONS REVISED INCLUSION OF M. BRIAND United P. A.—By Telegraph—-Copyright Reed. 1 p.m. PARIS, Friday. It is officially announced that the new Cabinet personnel is as follows: Premier and Minister of the Interior: M. Chautemps. Foreign Minister: M. Briand. r Minister for War: M. Besnard. Minister for the Navy: M. Albert Sarraut. Minister of Finance: M. Dummt. Minister for the Colonies: M. Famoureux. Minister of Public Works: M. □eladier. Minister of Labour: M. Loucheur. Minister of Commerce: M. Bonnet.

M. Sarraiit was formerly delegate to the Washington Conference. He will join M. Briand in London. It is understood that M. Danicolu, of the Merchant Marine, and M. Pietrl are also going to London. A previous message contained the following review of the problems facing the new cabinet: — The political complexion of the Ministry is Radical and Left Centre, It will have the support of the Socialists, but it remains to be seen what majority it will command in the Chamber of Deputies. The new Premier is a former Rugby international player. His age is 45. He is a barrister, with agreeable manners, and is regarded as a man of moderate views. But he has been known to show firmness in the past. TARDIEU REASONS M. Tardieu, in declining to enter M. Chautemps’s Cabinet, said events did not permit of his collaboration. This might be interpreted as a disavowal of the majority by which his Government had been faithfully defended in international actions at The Hague and London, hut he assured M. Chautemps that he would support any Government that took the same line as he himself took at the Naval Conference.

An official correction of the voting shows that M. Tardieu’s Government was defeated by a majority of one only, and not by five votes.