The Archive · 1930

FRANCE'S GREAT PROSPERITY

Only a Thousand Unemployed Last June: Latest!

Statistics Show Soundness of Country's Position Fro Ocr Own Paris, Oct. 24.

As a preliminary to the reopening of Parliament on November 4, Tardieu has been doing a little pardonable trumpet-blowing about the achievements of his Government. In speeches at St. Germain, which he formerly represented in Parl ment, and at Delle, in his present constituency, he has reminded the country that next year's Budget has been balanced without any increase in taxation, which has been reduced in one year to the extent. of £44,000,000, in addition to £120,000,000 taken off the public debt. This result is due in great measure to the native prudence of the French people.

What other people, imposed by M. Poincaré 1926, when the frane seemed likely.

Whether the purely constitutional re settled or unsettled, of to superiority by the Mother Country over the Dominions. there remains no vestige.

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