France naval bases needed powerful management preventing disorder by communist sympathisers according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1935 no. 6

An item referred to the magazine N.M.R. dated 22 August 1935 reporting that labourers of the shipyards at Brest and Toulon, France protested against decreasing their wages with 10%. The protest were to be peaceful but according to the magazine managed Communistic agents to provoke the protesters with a result bloody confrontations with the law forces. Lacking a stabile cabinet power was the French navy very vulnerable risking the morality of  the crews making a powerful management of the naval bases absolute necessary.