3 AUGUST 1929, Page 2

The resulting Parliamentary " crisis " in France has been

overcome by the simple expedient of a Briand Ministry—all the same Ministers as before, minus M. Poincare, whose Premiership without portfolio has devolved on the Foreign Minister. It is frankly described as a Ministere des vacances designed to tide over the immediate period when France must stand " one and indivisible " at the Young Plan Conference. The Con- ference is due to begin next Tuesday at the Hague, and if, as seems probable, France finds herself in the position of odd man out, the " fun," we imagine, will then begin, and many foreigners as well as Frenchmen may miss the rock-like stability of M. Poincare.

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