M. BLUM ELECTED
FRENCH PRIME MINISTER (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 12. The National Asembly elected M. Blum Prime Minister. He received '575 votes of 590 cast. The 74-yeaivold M. Blum ignored his doctor’s advice to stand for the premiership, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” He was pi’essed to do so because the Socialists had been asked by the Communists to nominate a candidate, and decided that he was the only man with the prestige to obtain a majority. M. Blum still suffers the effects of internment by the Vichy Government and the Germans. He said he would stand only if all approved of his election. Immediately after the vote, M. Blum began discussions with M. Thorez, M. Duclos and M. Herriot on the formation of a Government.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 54, 13 December 1946, Page 4
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