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FRENCH MINISTRY.
M. Viviani Abandoned
Premiership.
Coalition to be Formed.
LONBOX, October 28.
The drench Premier, M. Viviani, has resigned.
M. Aristide Briand, Minister of
Justice, has been asked <by the Freeident
to foian a Cabinet.
PABJS, October 2S.
It as defiedtelj> anounced that M. Briand
is to succeed M. Viviani. The latter will
become Minister of Justice, in place of the
new Premier.
M. Viviani itonnd it impossible to patch
Up the Cabinet, particularly to fiti^ a successor
tto M. I>icaese at the Foreign Office.
M. Viviani'a personal and political friends
finally coavinoed him that a complete
change of Government was essential. TT««
resignation foreshadows the formation ctf a
ooalitiah Ministry for national "defence, including
the best brains in Parliament.
iM. Poincare has received M. Viviani and
M. Briand. The latter will toe Prime
Minister and Foreign Secretary, M. Cunbon
Foreign Under Secretary, M. Viviani
Minister of Justice, M. Gallipi ManiEfcer.of
War, and Admiral Lecaze Minister of Marine.
The other meinbe^ will remain in
their present offices. An important change
will be. tibe ancQusion ?wiihout j)ortftriio of
leading statesmen, such as MM. Defreycint,
MeHine, Bourgeois, Combes,' Gueodee, and
Baron Cochin. AH parties will thus be
represented.
When M. Raymond. Poincare became
President of France in 1913 he was succeeded
in the Premiership by .M. Briand.
Tbe new Ministry was defeated in the
Senate on the Electoral Reform Bill on
March 18, 1913, and M. Briand gave way
to M. BaAhoo, whose. team remained in
office for only aight months. The next
Prime Minister was M. Ddumergue, but he
resigned after thegeneral election in April,
1914, and M. Viviani made up a Cabinet,
after M. Bibot had held office as Premier
for one day! M. Briand is recognised as
being a strong man.
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