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Show PILE IS TO in iraiiT Will Continue to Act as Minister of War in Spite of His Elevation to Post of Premier. RIBOT TO CONDUCT FOREIGN AFFAIRS j . ; " i Rene Viviani and Albert Thomas Have No Place in New Ministry; Latter Explains Position. PARIS, Kept. I I. - The new Kreneh cahinot contains a now ministry, at first railed the, ministry il' propaganda, but later changed to minister of missions abroad. Owing to tlio absence of Franklin Frank-lin Houillon, tlin now post is not listed withtlie other ministry designations of the journal. The now ministry consists of fifteen : . I i hi la r ministers, four ministers of state '. 'and eleven under-s'-'-retaries. 'I iie new ministers are divided among I live senators, eleven d'-pnties and two,! I.ouii Louchcur and Allien Claveille, do not belong to parliament. Tho eleven linder se'-retari'-s are also members, of the chamber of deputies. Sixteen of the new cabinet members have been mm- ' i,-ters or under-serretaries in previous cabinets :ind three are former premiers.' 'I'iie political groups repi esen ted in the.; new ministry do not in. dude the unified , Socialists. " I Three Radical Socialists. I Premier I'ainleve ic. resents 1 lie So-eiulist So-eiulist Kepidde-an group, v.lille the So- .-1 ji 1 i t Ka-lieals have three memiiers, the ; liadieal I.elt three, the K epn 1)1 iea 11 1'niou of tint senate two, the Republicans Republi-cans of 'lie heft one and the liadieal : Kepiitilie 1'niou seven nieiniiers. Seven . members of the Jiibot ministry retain i plaees in the new ealiitiet. The most noteil, perhaps, of the fiibnt ministry to go are Kene Viviani aiei Albert Thomas.; The Hi hot ministry failed late Sun-I dav night when M.' Thomas withdrew j and 1'iotessor Paul Paijileve followed him, being unwilling to remain in a cabinet, where the unified Socialists were not represented. Professor Pain-leve's Pain-leve's first combination met the same fale late Tuesday night, udien the unified uni-fied Soi-ialists also refused to co operate with hi:u principally because. Alexandre Kibut. remained a minister. Names of Ministers. The new French ministry formed by Professor Paul Painleve, who, in addition addi-tion to heeoiuiiui premier, will continue to act as minister of war, follows; Foreign affairs, Alexandre Hibot. Minister of justice, Tiaoul Perot. Minister of the interior. Jules Kteeg. .Minister of marine, Charles t hauniet. .Minister of munitions, Louis Loucli-eu Loucli-eu r. .Minister of finance, Louis Lucien Klotz. Minister of colonies, Kene Besnard. .Minister of transports, Albert Cla-veil Cla-veil lo. Minister of education, Daniel Vincent. Vin-cent. Minister of labor, Andrew Tiennrd. Minister of cormiK'i'e, Etienne Clement"!. Clem-ent"!. 1 Minister of a"ri''uture, Kernatid I.'a-vH. I.'a-vH. Minister nf provisions, Ma;;riee Lnn. M iiu!tpr for missions abroad, Franklin Frank-lin HouiHon. ; Four mini.-tera of state who aNo are nieiiiWfM't of the var council are Louis , rthou, I. ban Bourgeois, Paul Doumer ' ami .itaa I'upuv. I'li'l.T-s'vetary for mC'tieal ervii'e. , -J r i -r in 'j'o-lnrt. f I l.'r)l''r secretary of aviation, JneqiK'S L. I him:-) il. i ( 'n tier n-t ary of jrenoral a'l minis j trarion, M. Mourier. 1 'ji'ltT-ei-rt'tai'v I'nr military, justice ami i-jiiuns, Perre Ma-se. F ml it-sci,' rotary fur munitions, J. L. Hn'ton. 1 'nier-sPTetarv of the interior (in 'harLi- of inventions). Victor Petrynl. Fmier-eeretary of finance, Paul Rnnerely. Fipler-si-eretarv of commerce, Paul Morel. Fri'ler-seeretary of merchant marine anl transport, M. I lemon .. ! Fniler-yt-rctarv of blockade, Albert Metin. (:ii'ler-sei'retary for fine arts, Albert Dalimier. A Ibert Thomas, Socialist in em her of the war" con nc i I u mler t lie Ribot in in is-try, is-try, in a stafernent to the .lournal today, ! dci la roil that his refusal to collaborate with either former Premier Jiibot or with Professor Painleve. the present premier, in forming a cabinet was not because of personalities involved, but because of the question of the government govern-ment programme and especially of the will to carry it out. What ho criticised and -what led to his withdrawal was tho general composition compo-sition of the cabinet and the lack ot a programme for reorganization as well as the formation of a war committee, which lacked youth, vior and power. This attitude, he declared, represented not merely his personal views, but also those of his party. Tho country wanted energetic and resolute leaders, and whatever might be the individual values of the men forming the new cabinet, lie and his friends feared that, as a whole, it did not give the countrv the necessary im pression of freshened energy, and the decision to neglect nothing to prosecute the war successfully and after the war to promote lasting peace. In any case, declared M. Thomas, the unified Socialists would aid the cabinet in its task of national defense, and he even was willing ' to go- further and maintain that the national union had gained strength from the crisis. He considered that, his party should affirm more clearly than ever its complete agreement with the rest of the nation j lo lend all force toward victory. |