OUTLOOK IN FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 7

OUTLOOK IN FRANCE

FALL OF THE GOVERNMENT PREDICTED RECOVERY DECREES UNPOPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN PARIS. M. DALADIER DEFIANT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 18. Street demonstrations in Paris against M. Reynaud’s recovery decrees occurred last night when 2000 people assembled in the Place d’ltalia shouting “Down with the decrees,” “Resign, Daladier,” “Resign Reynaud.” Police dispersed the demonstrators after arresting 13. The “News Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent asserts that resistance to the decrees has already reached proportions making the fall of Daladier Ministry on the reassembly of Parliament almost a foregone conclusion. The Socialist and Communist parties are demanding their immediate withdrawal. The Confederation of Trade Unions has fixed November 26 as a “day of national protest.” There is also renewed talk of a general strike, but the Paris correspondent of “The Times” says responsible leaders of the confederation are completely opposed to such a step. M. Daladier in a speech at a journalists’ banquet admitted that the decrees meant sacrifices, but they were necessary for France’s economic recovery. He added: “I snap my fingers at opponents’ intrigues • and manoeuvres. I despise their threats. They will neither succeed in breaking the Government’s will nor in stopping France’s momentum to recovery.”