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Show UliCH APPROVE POINCARE STAND PREMIER TKLLS OP UNSUCCESSFUL UNSUCCESS-FUL PARLEY AT LONDON AND ASKS FOR CONFIDENCE Minister Seeks Authority te Pressed With Nonmllltary Measures to lie Applies! te Former Enemies RamboulUet France. Tk French cabinet, met here under the chairman-alp chairman-alp ot President Mllleraad and decided decid-ed not to call aa extarordlaary sea. loa ot parliament, since the govern, meat Is constitutionally empowered to make decisions during parliamentary recesses. Itamboulllet The French cabinet Wednesday unanimously approved of the German reparations policy ot Premier Pre-mier Polncare and congratulated him a the stand ho took at the London conference of allied premiers. This action was taken after M. Polncare Poln-care had given aa exposition of the unsuccessful negotiations in London. The premier desires that parliament be convened to give the ministry a Tote ot confidence. This would bo taken as a mandate to execute the plan which Minister of Finance de Lasteyrie la bringing before the council. coun-cil. The plan, which is reported to have been prepared in case the reparations commission's decision on tho moratorium morato-rium queetloa pronounces Germany la wilful default ot her payments, deals with measures to bo taken in Alsace-Lorraine and tho French occupied occu-pied territory ot the nhlneland. It is nndertsood ao military measures have been contemplated thus tar. When the mlnlstors alighted at tho RamboulHet station the crowd gave cheers for England as well as for France, although there were some cries ot "down with Lloyd George." |