FRENCH CABINET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10310, 20 January 1927, Page 5

FRENCH CABINET

CRISIS NARROWLY AVERTED

BRIAND AND POINCARE DIFFER ON GERMAN DISARMAMENT

(Received Jan. 19, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 19. Political circles lately have bec-n concerned over rumors of vital clifferences between M. Br.faid and M. Poincare, affecting the stability of the French Cabinet These have been based on the supposition that MBriand in the interests of peace was prepared to give way to Germany to an extent which M. Poincare would not countenance. The matter appears to have reached a crisis in Cabinet yesterday, after which M. Briand declared that Cabinet and himself were in complete accord, the only discord being that created outside. Curiously enough, the Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent touches this question at the end^of a message dealing with disarmament, in which it is argued that the demands made by the Feneli involve the fate of the entire German industries. The correspondent says it is recognised that the French internal situation necessarily acts as a drag on the development of the Locarno policy Full confidence is still placed in the sincerity of AI. Briand, hut. it is recognised that AI. Poincare's success in bringing about the appreciation of the franc has somewhat altered the balance of power in Cabinet in his favor, to the disadvantage of M. Briand. —A. and N.Z.C.A.