NEW FRENCH CABINET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 9

NEW FRENCH CABINET

MEETING IN CHAMBER TOMORROW

NAVAL POLICY UNALTERED British Official "Wireless Reed. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Saturday. The French Prime Minister, M. Camille Chautemps, completed his Cabinet last night and presented his list of new Ministers to the President. The new Government will meet m the Chamber on Tuesday and it is anticipated that the delegation to the Naval Conference will leave for London on Wednesday. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Aristide Briand, will head the delegation which, as before, will comprise the Ministers for Marine and the Colonies. The new holders of these offices are M. Sarraut and M. Famoureux.

It was stated by the Prime Minister that the Government will take the necessary steps to assure the continuity of the policy at the' London Conference. TARDIEU’S STAND APPROVAL FROM NEW MINISTER Reed. 11.30 a.m. PARIS, Saturday. M. Albert Sarraut, who will be the delegate to the London Naval Conference if the Government secures a majority in the Chamber on February 25, visited M. Leygues, Minister of Marine in the Tardieu Government, and assured him of his own approval of M. Tardieu’s standpoint. M. Chautemps also conferred with M. Leygues, who promised advice in any way contributing to the defence interests of the navy of France. M. Tardieu, in declining to enter M. Chautemps’s Cabinet, said events did not permit of liis 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 ano. London, but he assured M. Chautemps that he would support any Government that took the same line as he himself took at the Naval Conference.