Paris, July 18.
"France will never disturb the peace of others, because she is Jardently attached to her own peace," the Premier, M. Gaston Doumergue, [stated yesterday in a broadcast Jaddress to the nation. speaking of the proposals of an eastern security pact recently submitted by Int. Louis Barthou, French [Foreign Minister, to. his ' London Jeolleagues. and approved by them, IM. Doumergue said that the mess Jage carried by M. Barthou to the Jcountries he is visiting "expresses the need of security and the desire to ico-operate for any measures that jean give France, as well as other powers, the certainty of being able to live, work and progress in peace.
The reception accorded to "these proposals, the Premier went on, shows that we have been under: stood and the firm hope for success Jencourages us to persevere in our Speaking of the interior situation, IM. Doumergue said that his Government found the affairs of the country unsatisfactory state, but his Ministry had since accomplished a series of reforms resulting in the reduction of budgetary deficit, improvement of the money market, Jand reduction of the interest rates. He said that Fr. 5,500.000,000 worth lof gold entered the country since /Mareh, 1994, and Government securi-{ties showed a considerable improve-
The Government also passed mea-Jsures favouring the labour class and passed, in Parliament, a plan of large scale public works to cope with unemployment and regenerate the activity of French enterprises. On frontier defence, so as to thwart any attempts at violation of French front-
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