FRANCE SHAKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1938, Page 7

FRANCE SHAKEN

GREAT NEED OF NATIONAL UNITY COST OF THE AGREEMENT AT MUNICH. POPULAR FRONT “MORALLY EXTINCT.” — By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. October 12. The trend of French domestic policy is attracting increasing attention in the British Press. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” sees a widening tendency to count the cost of the Munich agreement. Even the large section which has hitherto demanded “neace at any price” is becoming increasingly anxious as to the future orientation of foreign policy. The need for unity is everywhere accepted as the first essential to France’s continued existence as a firstclass Power, but how this can be achieved no one is able to say. The Paris correspondent of the “News Chronicle” states that foreign policy is in the melting-pot. The internal political structure is shaken to the core, and the popular Front is morally extinct. M. Flandin. who forecast this situation, lost his opportunity through his pro-Nazi leanings during the crisis. The Premier, M. Daladier. has till November 15 to hammer out a new policv. but many people exnect that the Daladier-Bonnet combination will collapse before then.