Radical Socialist Congress and Religious Dispute Angers, Nov. 3
Unusual importance is attached to the annual Congress of the Radical-Socialist Party to-day because a section of the Party is credited with scheming the downfall of the Poincaré Government. The Congress Will decide whether the mandate to its Ministers in the Cabinet shall continue, All the leaders of the Party were present, including M. Herriot and three other members of the Cabinet, 'The' President of the Congress, Daladier, in his opening address adopted a non-committal attitude, 'The Rapporteur, M. Montigny, recommended, inter' alia, the enforce ment of anti-clerical legislation and the elimination of Articles LXX and LXXI from the Budget, these Ar-tides providing for restoration to the Church of confiscated property and for the re-establishment missionary communities in France.
In submitting his proposals, 3. Montigny criticized the Government's foreign policy. If the Government was not prepared to carry out the minimum programme had outlined, he continued, the Radicul-Socialist Party should withhold its support of the Government and the Party's Ministers in the Cabinet should retire, The General Political Committee, cly a small majority, then adopted the minimum programme drawn up by M. Montigny.—Reuter,
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