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A significant speech was made by M. Leon Blum here yesterday, when the Socialist Premier denied rumours of a Cabinet re-shuffle and further deva- luation of the franc..
"INITIATIVE IS CRUSHED"
Labour Leader On. Dictatorship
M. Blum, refuting reports of a change in Government policy, also denied that any re-shuffle of the Cabinet was contemplated.
It had been reported that the Cabinet, which now contains a ma- jority of Leftists, would be chang- ed so as to include more represen- tatives of the Right
DEVALUATION RUMOURS
Mr. Herbert Morrison, MP., lea- der of the L.C.C., speaking in Lon- don said that dictatorship was cer-1 In regard to rumours of devalua- tainly inferior to intelligent demo-tion, the Premier said that the Government was determined to sur- cracy as a system of government.
"It crushes initiative, stimulates (mount their. difficulties, not avoid favouritism in public appointments them.
and promotes jobbery. It robs the He estimated that capital hoard- State of a great mass of intelligence ed and exported amounted to three and ability that is available to it times the amount the State needed. under democratic conditions, noti The economic revival of France only among politicians but among was a fait accompli, he said," and public servants, technicians and in-the real financial problem was not dustrialists as well."
so much to reduce expenditure as
Democracy needed leadership. that to increase receipts.. was honest, incorruptible and cour- ACTION AGAINST SPECULATORS ageous.
"I have a theory," he said, that
M Blum foreshadowed action
a political leader who is never un against speculators to combat ex- popular among his own people can- cessing prices, and also referred to not be much good, for he is pro-insufficient production in relation bably a follower or a demagogue to demand.
rather than a leader.
This is interpreted in some quar-
"On the other hand, there is ters as a hint that there will be a something wrong with a leader who reduction in customs duties. Reu- is always unpopular.”
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