The Archive · 1934

Threat to Government in France Now Over

Nantes, Oct. 27 The threat to the existence of the JGovernment owing to the opposition of the Radical-Socialists, the strong-jest single party in Parliament, to the proposals of the Premier, Bf. Gaston Doumergue, for a reform of the Constitution, has been avesed.

Addressing the Radical-Socialist JCongress here today, M. Herriot, the leader of the party, made a stirring appeal for the preservation Jot the party. truce.

After 'a. brilliant expose of the whole situation, -he concluded: have only one word to add—January 13, 1995, is the date of the Saar 'M. Herriot's warning worked like magic. Immediately the Congress decided almost unanimously to preserve the party truce on which the [Ministry was founded, but authorized Radical ministers to negotiate a compromise with the Premier—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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