Evening star., 1924-08-19
FRENCH MINISTRY
APPROVES PACTS;;
HERR|0T CHEERED
Premier to Report to Depu-
ties and Senate on Con.
ference, Thursday.
ACCLAIM OF POPULACE
HELD FAVORABLE AUGURY
First Evacuation Completed-Ber-
lin Government Is
Strengthened.
By the Associated Press.


PARIS, August 19.-The French
cabinet today unanimously approved
the work of the French delegation
at the international Conference in
London. and thanked it for the i'm
portant results it had attained in the
interests of France.
The cabinet met this morning, and
after having listened attentively to
a report by Premier Herriot on the
proceedings and results of the con-
ference, gave its unqualified approv-
al of the accord which had been con-
cluded at the lengthy meeting at the
British capital
1t was decided that the Premier
should read his declaration before the
Senate and Chamber Thursday, giving
complete report of the work of the
London conference to both bodies of
the French legislature.
Living Costs to Fore.
Meantime, the ministers will at
tack an important problem of inter-
nal policy. meeting this evening to
consider measures connected with the
hlsh cost of living. notably in re-
gard to the price of bread.
Inc cordial reception accorded to
NJ. Herriot this morning by his coll
leagues of the cabinet echoed the en-
thuslasm of the throngs of men and
women who came to greet him when
he arrived from London yesterday
evening.
The popular demonstration in and
ABOUT the St. LaZare Station when
the premier arrived was an unmis-
taxable expression of popular rejoic-
ing over the accord concluded in Lon
oon, but 1t was also, IN the opinion Of
observers, personal tribute to NJ
Herriot from those Frenchmen who
believe the London agreement was a
paving of the way for a return to a
real peace footing.
Favorable Augury Seen.
The approval given by the cabinet
this morning to the work of the
! French delegation in London is said
| oy competent observers to augur we'll
for the survival of NJ. Herriots re-
port through the two or three weeks
OF parliamentary buffeting it will
have to undergo. Eight important
| interpretations are scheduled and
eight prominent orators are on the
list for speeches, and it is understood
! that NJ Herriot does not desire to cut
| Whatever the result of the debates
| in the two houses, and it is not felt
| the premier's course will receive any
serious setback in either, n. Herriot
already has the satisfaction of the
| knowledge that the general councils
! of three departments of central
France have passed resolutions prais-
| ing him.
| Will Rush Settlement.
| Premier Herriot told interviewers
| today that he was resolved to waste
no time in going ahead with the task
of obtaining the approval of both
houses of the Legislature. He will
! take no vacation when Parliament
finally adjourns. but will work harder
than ever while the representatives
of the country in the Senate and
| chamber are taking their annual
vacations in the country.
The conference is the first act of
peace," he said. There remain others
to be accomplished. but I sincerely
believe they will prove less difficult.
1 count on the debate before the
| chamber to be over by Friday. and
| that before the Senate before Satur-
! day"
The Premier hopes that even the
Lausanne treaty may be taken up and
ratified before the decree closing the
| session of the legislature is read.
AS soon as the adjournment is
| taken. NJ Herriot will attack the
problem of the high cost of living.
His attitude on this subject Is in
dicated by his remark today. We
simply have to find way of bringing
down prices"
Studies Foreign Problems.
Consideration of this internal
| problem, however, will not distract
him from his work on the problems
of foreign policy. which will arise
tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
he asserts. The first of these prob
lens will be that of security to
France. which he will raise at the
assembly of the League of Nations at
Geneva and the preparation of which
| will require much of his time.
| Then will come the economic prob
lem-that of the interallied debts
and, finally. that of French relations
with Russia. into which he intends
to go fully. studying particularly
| what England has done. and consult
! ing French merchants and manufac-
turers who are now dealing with Russia.
| In the aggregate, all Of these con-
| siderations form a formidable pro-
! gram of work for the Premier, while
the other politicians are at rest or
| play.