Evening star., 1933-11-26
CABINET BY TONIGHT
AIM OF CHAUTEMPS
"Safety at Home and Ma.
tionaI Security Abroad"
to Be Program.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, November 25.-Premier-
Designate Camille Chautemps started
forming a "crisis cabinet" tonight in
the face Of a mounting clamor for the
rescue Of the franc from perils Of an
unbalanced budget and dwindling gold
reserves.
As the second choice of President
Albert Lebrun. the veteran lawyer,
legislator ami minister was said to be
seeking ministry that would last until
the veteran Edouerd Herriot would
again be ready to take the helm.
Chautemps cabinet, he said, would be
dedicated to a program Of public
safety at home and national security
abroad"
Complete Cabinet Soon.
The premier designate, apparently as
sured OF a Center majority, indicated
that his cabinet would be completed by
Sunday night.
Political forecasters had already set
Chautemps' ministerial funeral for
December II, so that NJ Herriot, whose
government fell last December on his
advocacy of q war debts payment to
the United States, could avoid an
other debt default-an extremely en-
barrassing point to Herriot.
In the meantime, wranglings in his
radical Socialist party over portfolios
and opposition to new taxes complicat-
ed the task of the master politician Of
six previous cabinets.
President Lebrun offered the cabinet
forming job to Chautemps after series
Of fofi xHyifla
and the refusal of NJ. Herriot to assume
the worrysome task
Herriot, it was understood, was
rendered the opportunity as something
of a gesture because Herriot has hardly
recovered from a serious three-month
illness and is known to want to defer
any plans he may have at least until
after the anniversary of his defeat on
December IA, 1882.
Fourth in IL Months.
Chautemps' cabinet would be the
fourth France has had in the last II
months. That OF Albert Sarraut step
ped down early yesterday after the
recalcitrant Chamber of Deputies had
once more spurned the governments
attempts to balance the budget and
save the franc" On an economy and
new tax program.
The premier designate went to the
Elysee Palace this afternoon in the
presidential automobile. Immediately
the President asked the leader TO Or
ganize a government. Chautemps sup
: ported Herriot last year in the cam
paign for the payment of the debt in
stallment and was offered the PREMIER
ship when Herriot fell.
NJ. ChautempS will report tomorrow
TO the President on whether he can
get majority.
He endeavored to put the Socialists
in a neutral corner while trying 10
rebuild the Center majority which Sar-
raut lost.
Camille Chautemps has for years
been one of the outstanding leaders
of the Radical Socialist party.
He was offered the chance Of form
ing a cabinet aftcr Herriot's downfall
last December. but declined because
he could rot induce his former chief
to resume the foreign ministry.
Herriot had demanded, but was
refused, outright support in the Cham
ser of Deputies for his stand favoring
payment of the American war debt.
Chautemps. 48 years old. is the son
of the late Emile Chautemps, vice
president of the Senate and former
foreign minister, and thus belongs TO
what has been called the "aristocracy
of the third republic
He began his parliamentary career
in 1910. Before that he completed
law studies in Tours and Paris and
was a French international" rugby
PLAYER.