Government's Narrow Majority on Railwaymen's Amnesty:
The Geneva: Protocol Paris, Nov. 14.
The French Government secured the narrow majority of 26—I6t the Senate on ing for the rein-wayman dismissed The Opposition insisted that reinstatement must be optional since the Government lacked legal power to compel private companies to reinstate men.
M. Herriot, the Premier, demanded unqualified reinstatement, leaving the Government free to secure the best arrangement it could in negotiations with the companies, The fate of this section of the Amnesty Bill was regarded as very critical from the Government pain', of view.
Nov. 15.
M. Millerand, the ex-President, in a speech explaining the politico Programme, said he was of the opinion that the work begun at Geneva should be continued; though the only guarantee of the Disarmament Protocol lay in its appeal to the good faith of each nation. He thought it desirable that Germany to which France would never agree. He regarded the entente between Great Britain, France and Belgium as an additional guarantee for peace, hut it was insufficient to enable France to reduce peace-time armaments until she had obtained more effective safeguards.
The ex-President condemned the Government's action in recognizing the Soviet, which was unnecessary. The British, Belgian and Itali efforts to establish Russia had all also con-denied the proposed suppression of the Embassy at the Vatican—Reuter.
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