M. Doumergue's Minister of Public Works Succeeds Chief to Premiership Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Minister of Public Works in the outgoing French Cabinet headed by M. Gaston Doumergue, has succeeded in forming a new Ministry.
With only a few changes, the personnel is the same as the Doumergue Government. The outstanding changes include the disappearance of Marshal Henri Petain as Minister of War and M. Andre Tardieu, Minister without Portfolio. M. Pierre Laval retains the Foreign Ministry and Gen, Maurin becomes Minister of War.
In a statement, the new Premier says that the party truce will continue. The one aim of the new government is to combat the misery of unemployment, maintain public finance and to rejuvenate the reform of the state. M, Flandin appealed to the people for their support.
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