Evening star., 1934-01-30
DALAD|ER FORMS
CENTR|ST CABINET
Naming of Col. Fabry as War
Minister Indicates Strong
Answer to Hitler.
~ the Associated Press.

nation out of the mire of the Bayonne
pawnshop scandal.
It Is cabinet Of "the center"
neither radical nor conservative. 1t Is
composed mainly of veteran statesmen
and, significantly, Col. Jean Fabry,
Marshal Joffre's aide-de- camp during
the war.
Appointment of the one-legged F'abry,
veteran fighting man, as minister OF
war, was regarded as a clear indication
OF the strong defense policy with which
France will confront Chancellor Hitler
OF Germany.
Set-up ofNew Cabinet.
Besides Fabry, the following compose
the cabinet of Premier Daladier:
M. Daladier, foreign affairs; Eugene
Penancier, Justice Eugene Frot, in
terror; Pierre Cot, air; Francois Pletrl.
finance and the budget: Emile Berthod,
education; Jean MEtler, commerce,
Henri Queueille, agriculture; Joseph
Paganon. public works; Jean Valadler,
labor; Henri de Jouvenel, colonies;
Hippolyte Ducos, pensions; Paul Bernler.
posts and telegraphS; Emil Llsbonne.
public health Louis de Chappedelame,
marine, and Guy Lachambre, merchant
marine
AS undersecretaries, the following
were named:
Martinaud Deplat, premiers office;
Andre Marie. foreign affairs; Raymond
Patenotre, national economy and tour
ism; Jean Herard, interior, Andre
Bardon, fine arts; GuStave Doussain,
technical instruction; Andre Lorgere,
physical education. and Maxence Dlole,
colonies in North Africa.
Fourth Cabinet in Year.
The new cabinet is the fourth which
France has seen since Chancellor Hitler
assumed the leadership OF Germany just
& year ago today.
In selecting his ministers the new
premier dropped all the powerful names
of the ministry of Premier Camille
ChautempS, the man whom he replaces.
He retains only a few minor members
whose names are free from all whispers
OF connection with the pawnshop scam
da1
Besides Daladier only seven were
held over from the Chautemps cabinet.
The governmental list is composed of
four SenatorS-Penancler, Valadler De
Jouvenel and Lisbonne-and 81 Dep
titles.
Valadier is minister for the first
time, in his career, while five OF the
observation-disclosures DouSsain, Bar
don, Lorgere and Deplat-also are new
conerS
Penancier, who will have the chief
burden of speeding justice and quleting
the rumors of governmental corruption,
Is president of the Senate's Committee
on Civil and Criminal Legislation.
The new cabinet was presented to
President Lebrun Immediately.
Must Clean Up Scandal.
When he left the Elysee Palace after
the ceremony Premier Daladier said;
1T is necessary to bring this scandal
to an end with. if necessary, brutal
rapidity and shed on it all the light
that the public demands"
He insisted that it was necessary for
Parliament to vote its approval of
budget by March 3, saying that other
wise financial danger was threatened.
Even as the new cabinet was formed
the taxi drivers of Paris increased their
strike manifestations.
They weaved slowly back and forth
across the boulevards. snarlng traffic,
while hundreds of police gestured vainly
and frantically and spectators stood
by and laughed.
In Toulon they observed the same
tactics, tying up traffic for an hour.
Will Have Three Big Jobs.
AS premier he will have three big
Jobs:
l. Clean up the Bayonne bank scam |
dal; punish any high officials involved,
police system which some government
leaders say made the scandal possible.
q Get the budget for 1884 balanced
and approved.
3. Keep French alliances strong, and
hold off what he considers more and
more threatening Germany.
France has been spurred to new ef-
forts to fortify herself as result of
Chancellor Hitler's demands for more
guns and a standing German army of
300, 900 men-three times the allotment
under the treaty of Versailles-coupled
with Germanys withdrawal from the
League of Nations and the Disarma-
naent Conference.
While continuing to maintain that
any change in Germanys armed status
must come through the League, France
Is strengthening her alliance with the
Little Entente, Tightening up her army y
and improving Notifications.
For the last month Paris has seethed
with anger as a result of the Stavisky
bank scandal which brought the down.
fall of the ministry of Camille Chau-
temps
Roar Of Popular Indignation.
roar of popular indignation was |
feised with charges that high govern |
ment officials were involved in opera
tions through which Serge StaviSky, |
founder Of the fallen Bayonne NUM-
cipal Pawnshop. allegedly robbed in
veStors of $4,000 900.
Chautemps vigorously denied that |
any Of the members of his cabinet |
were implicated. He blamed Frances |
notorious red tape, said Stavisky was
able to wriggle from one shady deal |
to another because the ollt-of date ad.