Show I Complicated Problems of St State f j To Confront New French Cabinet 1 By M. M I. I K K PARIS May 19 Knotty JP Knotty problems lems ems left over by the thc old chamber ot of f deputies and the expiring government government government govern govern- ment of ot Andre Tardieu will confront Frances France's new cabinet and lower house when they take over early in June There is grief grIer ahead for the Incoming incoming in- in coming premier whoever he may be Edouard Herriot as leader of the largest p party in the chamber probably probably probably ably will draw the first invitation to o form a n cabinet Foreign relations form a pretty puzzie puzzle zie in themselves but it is the domestic domestic domestic do do- situation that is likely to give sIve the he new administration its first head head- ache A glance at that explains in ina a R large larce measure the talk of a transitional transi ional cabinet to hold office until the he new chamber gets its bearin bearings s. s There is is at the top of the list a n budget deficit It is estimated at from irom two wo to nine billion bUlion francs which translate Into American money at atrom from rom to MUST l STEP STEr WARILY Balancing this Involves among other other other oth oth- er factors a decrease in the cost of government and lowering the salaries of public is just as ticklish an affair here as in other republics Another tender subject Is the so social social so- so cial insurance law the French com corn version of unemployment dole workmen's compensation and old age pensions Enemies of ot this statute are asking askins revisions to reduce the he states state's contributions a measure which would not exactly appeal to towage towage wage earners Foreign affairs can be approached only by a path containing the deadly pitfall of possible Isolation of France On all sides the republic finds Itself confronted with these which on their lace face ace seem diametrically opposed to French ideas POWERS OPPOSE FRENCH At Lausanne on June 16 the French delegates to the reparations parley must meet demands of Germany German Ital Italy and arid Great Britain for complete can can- cella lIon of reparations The new legislature must wrestle with a R possible pos pOS- sible change in the French policy relative relative rela reIn tive to the war debt owed to the United States Linked with this big question is the he situation at the disarmament conference conference conference con con- ference in Geneva There has developed developed de de- de- de eloped an nn almost united front against the French proposal for an international army There is also on file the Italian demand for naval parity The parliament may be called upon to fit this opposition into the time- time seasoned French thesis of security before disarmament France Is also a German German German Ger Ger- Austrian Italian Italian- man Hungarian Turkish coalition which is driving for fora a revision of the treaty of or Versailles But in opposing this she has the aId old of her war born allies nIlles Poland cho and expanded expand expand- ed cd Rumania U. U S. S TRADE DISPUTE Finally there arc are questions of or trade relations with the United States Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada Argentina and several European countries arising out of the quota import import import im im- im- im port system originated by the Laval Lava government last fall Foreign business Interests complain that the quotas are ruining their trade Walter E. E Edge Edse American ambat dor and Thomas Le a. a i Breton a arzi of Argentina have fe sizable batches of ot complaints complaint each nj the he government ent and other cou are arc following suit cOuntries f I |