FRANCE: Butter And Cannon

Fortnight ago when the Cabinet of Camille Chautemps fell, France dropped into something approaching political chaos (TIME, Jan. 24). Last week after everyone available had tried in vain to form a new Cabinet, France emerged from chaos with M. Chautemps once more Premier. His new Cabinet, as finally set up, excluded the Communists, dropped the Socialists, was comprised exclusively of his own moderate, middle-class party, the Radical Socialists who are a minority in the Chamber. But so relieved were all parties to see a government set up, that the Chamber approved the...

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