The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
FRANCE TENSE
AS NEW CHIEF
ASSUMES RULE
FIandin Is Successful in
Organizing Cabinet in
Record Time.
PETAIN LOSS A BLOW
Streets Heavily Guarded as
Aroused Masses Warn
of NO Politics.
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PARIS. Nov. 9.-Pierre- Etienne
Flandin. As, the republics young
est premier. today took up the task
OF leading the nation through one
Of its gravest peace time periods as
head Of a new salvation government.
He did so under the cOldly watch
FIJI eyes Of millions of people who
demand government without party
politics. and who seemed ready to
turn into the streets in riot II neces-
sarv to enforce their demand.
There were heavy police and Re
publican guard patrols in the CEN
trail districts Of Paris but the city
was quiet.
Flandin and 7l-year-old CASTOR
Doumergue, whom he replaced, and
vho was a colonial judge in Indo-
China the year in which he was
born, alike appealed TO the nation
70 be calm.
FIandin Youngest Premier
The new premier, s feet inches
tall. the nations largest as he is its
Youngest political leader, called a
meeting of his cabinet for 5 p. m.
today I'll indianapolis timeJ. He
announced he would face the cham
Der Of deputies Tuesday TO make his
ministerial declaration and seek a
vote Of confidence.
BY virtue of the wide coalition on
which Flandin succeeded in form
ing a cabinet-practically identical
with the DOumergue truce govern
ment. formed as the result Of the
fatal Stavisky riots last February
he seemed assured of from 800 to
400 OF the els votes in the chamber.
Flandin lost two powerful men,
bers Of the Doumergue government,
Andre Tardieu, right wing leader,
and Marshal Philippe Petain, the re-
vered war hero. Neither would
continue to serve. But he obtained
instead Louis Marin. of the right
wing. and General Albert Maurin,
who is acceptable to the right wing.
Leaders Breathe Easier
Political leaders. who feared trou-
bic after the DOumergue govern
ment broke up yesterday. breathed
somewhat easier today. There were
sixteen anxious hours during which
there were only six arrests in the
city for disOrderly conduct, Those
arrested were six Royalist youths
who tried to start a six-man demon
Stration in the Place de LOpera.
Pierre Laval. DoumeTgue's foreign
minister. tried to form a government
and failed. Flandin was called IN.
Within ten hOurS-a record-he
formed his cabinet.
At a. m. today he took his min
listers to the Elysee Palace and re-
ceived congratulations Of President
Albert Lebrun.
As Flandin started for the ElySee
he told the United Press CORE
Spondent:
I have succeeded in joining
around nc men who. I am certain.
will work arduOuSly for France and
the Republic. forgetting party diff
fereneS.
Has But One Goal
we have but one goal-to fight
against misery ana Unemployment
10 restore the national economy; to
maintain strong public finances; to
retuvenate and reform the state
tthe constitution.
I hope the nation will receive the
cabinet alphabetically. recalling
that 1 was forced to build my gov
ernment in a minimum Of time.
Twelve Of Flandin'S nineteen fell
low ministers are holdOvers from the
DOumergue cabinet Flandin him.
self was Doumergue's public works
minister. Six enter the cabinet for
the first time. Five Of them are OF
the radical Socialist party. largest
Croup in the chamber and hence the
mainstay Of this as fell as the Dou-
mergue cabinet. II was the radical
Socialists who precipitated the crisis
BY refusing 70 accept DOumergue's
plan for constitutional reform.