Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-27
FRENCH CABINET
( RECONSTRUCTED
n FOR WAR CRISIS
Niviani Remains Premier, With
Strongest Men of Nation
Picked as Aides.

PARIS. Aug. 27.-The ministry
headed by Premier Rene viviani re-
signed last sht.
Another cabinet was Immediately
formed.
Premier Viviani visited the Elysee
Palace at 1918 p. M. and notified
President Poincare that the members
OF the cabinet had decided to resign
collectively. He said that he and his
colleagues had come to the conclu-
sion that, in the circumstances which
the country was passing through, the
ministry should have wider scope
and comprise all the best men in all
the Republican groups.
President Poincare charged NJ.
Viviani with the task of organizing
a new cabinet, which the premier &C
cepted.
He returned to the Elysee about
an hour later and made known to the
President the composition of the new
Ministry, which is as follows:
President of the council, with
out portfolio-Rene Viviani.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Theophile Delcasse.
Minister of War-Alexandre
Millerand.
& Minister of Justice-Aristide
BRAND.
Minister of the Interior-Louis
Malvy.
Minister of Marine-victor Au-
gagneur.
Minister of F'inance-Alexandre
Ribot.
Minister of Public Instruction
~ Albert Sarraut
Minister of Public Works-Mar-
Gel Sembat.
Minister of Commerce-Gaston
Thomson.
Minister of the Colonies-Gas-
ton Doumergue.
Minister of Agriculture-Fer-
nand David.
Minister of Labor-Bienvenu
3 Martin.
Minister without portfolio
81 Jules Guesde.
Under Secretary of Fine Arts
81 Albert Dalimier
Among the members of the new
cabinet are several ex-premiers and
many members of former cabinets.
Marcel Sembat is United Social
list deputy, and M. Guesde a Social
list deputy M. Delcasse was former
ly foreign minister and later ambas-
sador to Russia.
M. Millerand is an ex-minister of
war.
Premier Viviani remained at the
Elysee Palace to present the men,
bers of the cabinet to the President.
The entry of Guesde and Sembat
unifies the Socialists of France. The
Socialists say they desire to collabor-
ate in the defense of the nation, al
though under the leadership of Guesde
they always will be opposed to the
participation of the party in the gov
eminent.
M. Guesde in an interview in the
Paris Midi today says:
II go into the cabinet as an envoy
of my party, not to govern, but to
fight. If / were younger / would
have shouldered a gun. But as my
age does not permit this I will never
theless face the enemy and defend
the cause of humanity.
II am confident of final victory, and
without hesitation as to its subse-
quent role in France the party will
never deviate from the line of con-
duct laid out. AS the solidarity of
workmen does not shut out the right
to defend themselves against traitor
workmen, so international solidarity
does not excl-de the right of one ma
ton to defend itself against a gov
eminent traitor to the peace of
Europe.
France has been attacked and she
will have no more ardent defenders
than the Workmen'S party.
NJ. Sembat declined to say more
than that he and M. Guesde had ac-
cepted their posts with the approval
of the Socialist party, (which with
all other parties in France must now
give way before the necessity of ma
tional defense"
The Viviani ministry came into be-
ing on July 10. M. Viviani had been
minister of instruction in the cabinet
of CASTOR Doumergue, which re-
signed on June 2, and was asked by
President Poincare to take the prem
iership at that time.
NJ viviani found it impossible to
form a ministry and gave up the
attempt. But after the resignation
of the Ribot cabinet on June IL, he
was again called on, and this time
managed to evade the question of the
three-year law and form ministry
which contained few noted names,
but seemed likely to last as long as
tho uorapo French cabinet