Evening star., 1948-09-08
'AuriioI Selects
Conservative as
French Premier
De GouIIe Followers
Also Consulted on
New Government
By the kssoeioted Prsxx

! ~ ivy NssSN'e'eo FIesh
! PARIS, Sept. S.-Minister o.
Public Works Henri Queuille sale
today President Vincent Aurio
has asked him to form a new
government.
/ Robert Schuman's cabinet wa!
overthrown last night after it hae
been in Office 64 hours. Genera
elections seemed probable.
Mr.. Queuille visited the Presiden
at Elysees Palace after former Pre-.
mier Eduoard Herriot, sick and aged
announced he had rejected an offer
Mr.. Auriol for the first time alst
consulted Rightist followers of Gen
Charles de Gaulle in an effort Il
solve the crisis.
VIII Answer Tomorrow.
Mr.. Queullle. like Mr.. Herriot, i
a member of the conservative Radi.
cal Socialist Party. He said he
would reply to the Presidents Offer
tomorrow. He left the palace
through a Gordon of about 100 DO
lice and mobile guards who had beer
thrown hastily around the building
when crowd of 500 workers assem-
bled at the outskirts of Paris anc
began marching toward the center
of the city.
The rightists and the Communists
defeated Mr.. Schuman by six votes
with the aid of a split in tn,
Radical Socialist Party. The issu,
was over an 1888 cost of livine
bonus for French workers. many Of
whom work for the government ir
SocialiZed industries.
Mr.. Schuman's government wa!
the 18th since the war ended ane
the fourth since the start of las1
year.
Cites Failing Health.
! Mr.. Herriot announced he hac
refused to form new cabinet be.
cause OF his failing health.
Mr.. Herriot. rs. is president of tn.
National Assembly. He had con.
ferred earlier with Mr.. Auriol.
| An announcement issued aftel
the meeting said Mr.. Herriot tole
Mr. Auriol he felt his work at thu
National Assembly imposed dutie.
he could not escape. He addec
that his health was bad.
Communicated unions in various
public services of the capital ordered
a 24-hour walkout to bolster de.
mands on upgrading wage scales
Most OF the city's garbage collector,
quit work, but the order was only
partly effective in other fields
There was no indication of a breal
either in hospital or water services
Sources close to the president sale
the only solution now seems to bt
for a "caretaker' government tt
meet the nations urgent economic
problems and get ready for new
general elections.
Radical Socialists Split.
Mr.. Schuman's coalition govern.
ment, put together Sunday after
long and laborious effort, resigned
in the face of defeat in the National
Assembly on technical, parliament
tary issue. The coalition was made
up of Mr.. Schuman's own Popular
Republicans, the Socialists and the
Radical Socialists.
Fourteen Radical Socialist depu-
ties bolted party lines and voted
against Mr.. Schuman on the crucial
ballot, Mr.. Herriot, an old war
horse of French politics, flew into
a towering rage and said he was
quitting as head of the Radical
Socialist Party. whose members are
neither radical nor Socialist, but
Conservative.
The Radical Socialists split over
the coSt-of-living bonus. The Ma
tional Executive Committee OF
Flench employers went on record
yesterday against the bonus. which
would cost about s39O,OOO,OO0 all
told.
Bonus Fight Continues.
A fight is brewing now over
whether the bonus will have to be
paid, in the face of the fact that
Mr.. Schuman is out.
The 295 votes against Mr.. Schu-
man last night came mainly from
the Communists and rightists. There
were 289 votes for Mr. Schuman.
The cabinet which fell last night
was Mr. Schuman's second. HI
preceded and succeeded Andre
Marie, Radical Socialist. who
lasted only month. After he quit
late in August. France was without
cabinet for eight days, until Mr.
Schuman finally got one together