Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-13
NEW PARIS CHAMBER
MAY FORCE PREMIER
AND M|L[ERAND OUT

PARIS, May Icy the Asso
ciated Press).-The official results
of Sundays elections show that the
Poincare cabinet has lost it's major
ity in the chamber of deputies.
With only sixteen seats missing,
official returns show that M. Poin.
care will be in minority of more
than fifty votes in the new cham.
Der.
Tremendous gains for the parties
of the left with corresponding heavy
losses for the Bloc national are
shown early today.
Should the present ratio continue
it will be impossible for Premier
Poincare to remain in power.
This, however, does not neces.
sarily mean that M. Herriot, the
radical leader, will be the next
premier, even should the present
ratio of gains for the parties of the
Left continue for the seats still to
be heard from.
There are many difficulties to be
surmounted. Before an arrange,
ment can be made between the Uni
fled Socialists and the Radical So
cialists the former must agree to
support M. Herriot unqualifiedly.
For their part, the Unified Socialists
will insist upon most important rep
resentation in the radical cabinet
and their demands may prove unac'
ceptable to M. Herriot.
Draeido,,t Moy Raster,
Political observers pointed out
that swing in the balance of
the chamber, bringing into power
a premier of the left might af-
feet the tenure of office of Presi-
dent Millerand, who was a great
proponent of the Bloc national in
1919 and its first premier.
Those claiming to be in his con-
fidence declared he would prefer
to resign rather than become a
rubber stamp for a majority with
which he was not in sympathy.
War records no longer are a pre-
ponderant factor in French politics.
Former Minister of the Interior Nal
Wy. who was banished during the
war for five years, is returned to
the chamber, carrying his ticket
with him. while General De Castel-
nau, victor of Grand Couronne and
the savior Of Nancy in 1914, was
beaten.
Andre Marty, communist, inn
rrisoned for surrendering his ship
to the bolsheviks on the Black sea,
is elected for Seineet- Disc. while
Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl
Marx, also was returned.
l. ;e,{ ~
of war, one of those who has
warned against the Renaissance of
German revenge; Prince joachim
Murat, descendant of the King of
Naples. and Castor Vidal, former
ton. were defeated, while former
Ministers Rebel and Colrat, and
M. -Bouillon. negotator of
the Angora treaty, were successful.
Ruhr Ministers Reelected
OF the Poincare cabinet, the Ruhr
ministers, Nm. Maginot and Le-
Trocquer were returned as were
MN. Lefebvre du Prey, minister of
Justice, and Louis Marin. minister
of liberated regions. The return of
M. Capus minister of agriculture
and NJ. Daniel Vincent, minister of
hygiene and labor, is probable.
Raou Peret, president of the
chamber, was reelected. Leon Dau-
Diet, the royalist leader, was de-
feated.
NJ. dAubigny. under-secretary of
state for France, was defeated,
along with his former chief, NJ. de
Lasteyrie Victor Boret. minister
Of agriculture under Clemenceau,
was elected.
Marcel Cachin. the communist
leader was successful. Comman-
dant Brocard, leader of France S
most famous aerial squadron; in
which Captain George Guynemeyer
and Lieutenant Jean Navarro
starred during the war. was elect
ed for Paris. and Sadi Leconte,
another flying ace. was defeated.
Former Premiers Painieve and Ley
uoro elect ed