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Former Premiers Tardieu and Herriot were appointed a committee of two to formulate a plan to reduce France's abnormally high living costs. Toward the very vital problem of parliamentary reform, Deputy Paul Reynaud, like Gastounet Doumergue long an admirer of the British House of Commons, last week advanced two proposals which were immediately approved by the Parliamentary sub-commission...
...Cabinet: President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs-Andre Tardieu. Vice President of the Council, Minister of Justice and Controller of Administration-Paul Reynaud. Interior-Albert Mahieu. Finance-Pierre Etienne Flandin. National Defense-François Pietri. Public Instruction-Mario Roustan. Public Works, Communications and Merchant Marine-Charles Guernier. Commerce and Posts-Louis Rollin. Labor-Pierre Laval. Public Health-Camille Blaisot. Agriculture-Dr. Claude Chauveau. Colonies-Louis de Chappedelaine. Pensions and Liberated Regions-Auguste Champetier de Ribes...
March: Faced by Red riots in French Indo-China, the Premier convened the High Colonial Council in Paris for the first time in three years and studied critically the results of guillotining 700 native Communists in the past two years?with the result that Minister of Colonies Paul Reynaud is now in the Far East "sympathetically examining native grievances...
Bamboo whips, bayonets, machine guns and the guillotine were not enough. As a final effort Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud was in Hanoi last week to do what he could to settle the growing unrest in French Indo-China...
...execution. Bearded Sikh policemen in Singapore arrested the French Communist Serge La France and shipped a bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After studying this batch of evidence the French Colonial Office realized that the guillotine may not have been the ideal cure. Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud left his desk in Paris and hurried East for four months. While he is in Indo-China beheadings will be suspended. Said a spokesman for Paul Reynaud, "M. Le Ministre will examine sympathetically native grievances...