NEWS OF THE WEEK
IT is obviously as distressing to the great majority of the French nation as it is to their friends in this country to learn that efforts are being made by some members of the Radical Party to deprive M. Reynaud of its support. After the fall of M. Daladier and a factious debate in the Chamber which deeply disturbed the French public, M. Reynaud was entrusted with the task of forming a Government, and the least that disinterested Frenchmen expected was that he would be given a chance to make good, and be judged on his record, not from partisan motives. M. Daladier, the leader of the party, gave an example of public spirit by consenting to serve under M. Reynaud. At a party meeting held yesterday M. Cabanis, M. Le Bail, and M. Massot protested when M. Bonnet, now out of office, urged that support should be withheld from the Government. Those three members insisted that the national interest demanded a truce from factional quarrels, and that another Cabinet crisis would cause pleasure to the enemy and pain to the friends of France. This appeal to country before party did not prevent M. Bonnet and M. Guy La Chambre from accepting a mission to inforin M. Daladier of their discontents. It is disturbing indeed that a Government which offers such high promise as M. Reynaud's, framed on a national rather than a party basis, should be compelled at this early stage to fight on two fronts—against the enemy abroad and the spirit of political faction at home.
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