Evening star., 1940-03-21


Russian envoy believed carrying
message to Stain. Page A-4
AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS con-
tinue to arrive to aid Finland;
unit stays indefinitely, assigned to
patrol and reconstruction work.
Page A-4
NEW BOMBING STYLE set by
British in Sylt raids, says Maj.
Eliot; attack hour after hour first
Of kind in this war. Page B-9
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 21.-Energetic Paul
Reynaud today formally took the
helm of the French government as
Premier and Foreign Minister in a
broadened win the war" coalition
cabinet drawn from the Socialists
on the Left to groups of the Right.
Edouard Daladier, whom NJ Rey-
maud succeeds as Premier, stayed
in the new ministry as Minister of
National Defense. M Reynaud S
former portfolio in the Finance
Ministry went to Lucien LamoureuX.
Five in Inner Cabinet.
M. Reynaud and five other minis
tiers constitute the inner war cabi-
net.
The five are: Daladier; Camille
Chautemps, Vice Premier; Cesar
Campinchi, Navy Minister; Senator
Laurent Eynac, Air Minister, and
Raoul Dautry, Armament Minister.
NJ Reynsud also set up war
committee" composed of himself
Chautemps, Daladier, Colonial Min
lister Georges Mandel and Finance
Minister Lamoureux.
A separate economic council"
also was established, similar to
Britain's ministerial economic war
fare group. Members include La
moureuX and all ministers whose
duties are concerned with national
economy.
M. Reynaud called his first cabi-
net meeting for tomorrow morning,
to be followed by council of min
isters-the cabinet meeting with
President Albert Lebrun. These
sessions will be followed by gov
ernmental declarations before the
two chambers of Parliament.
Two Rightist Groups Out.
The new government failed to pre-
sent the national union character at
first expected because of the refusal
of two rightist groups to support it,
the Republican Federation, led by
Louis Marin, and the Republican
Alliance, headed by ex-Premier
Pierre-Etienne Flandin.
The cabinet, therefore, depended
strongly on NJ Daladier's Radical
Socialists, who furnished seven men,
bers, and the Socialists, largest group
in the Chamber of Deputies, repre-
sented by three ministers.
The rest of the new cabinet are ::
Henri Roy, Interior.
Louis Rollin, Commerce.
Albert Scroll, Justice.
Lucien Lamoureux, Finance.
Georges Mandel, Colonies.
Albert Sarraut, Public Instruction.
Henri Quequille, Provisions.
Paul Thelller, Agriculture.
Georges Monnet, Blockade.
Anatole de Monzie, Public Works.
Charles Pomaret, Labor.
Jules Julien, Communications.
Louis Frossard, Information.
Alphonse Rio, Merchant Marine.
Marcel Heraud, Public Health.
Albert Riviere, Pensions.
The Socialists have been without
representation in French cabinet
since M. Daladier took power in
April, 1888. Their three ministers in
the new government are Monnet
Riviere and Scroll.
Socialists o. X. Selections.
Socialists in the Chamber of Dep
uties, after receiving a report from
former Socialist Premier Leon Blum
on three of their group chosen for
ministerial posts and three others
as underSecretarieS, approved the
selections by vote of 80 to Z.
Pressed for speed, M. Reynauo
steered France quickly past her first
cabinet crisis of the war while the
nation kept wary eye on Germany
After accepting the Presidents
bid yesterday, M. Reynaud worked
until am. today consulting with
leaders. When he stopped he hao
seen M. Daladier, M. Mandel, former
Premier Edouard Herriot, president
of the chamber; Jules Jeanneney
president of the Senate; Lucier
Lamoureux, former Finance Min.
lister, Rollin, former Commerce
Minister, and two other veterans
of Daladier's cabinet, Henri Queuille
Minister of Agriculture, and M
= Chautemps.
Appointment Well Received.
The designation of peppery, 61-
year. old M. Reynaud, whose reor-
ganization of French finances is
rated as one of the greatest achieve
ments Of the Daladier cabinet, was
well received in Parliament.
Legislative circles, whose demands
for more strenuous French war ef-
forts led to M. Daladier's downfall
considered M. Reynaud we'll quail
fed to lift the war out of stalemate
with British-French initiative.
As member of the Left-Repub-
lican party, NJ Reynaud is slightly to
the right politically, but Deputies
considered him in the best position
to organize an action" ministry in
cluding the Socialists, the largest
party in the Chamber, who had no
representation in M. Daladier's
cabinet.