electric power stations and gas and water supplies. The schools arc closed and the streets will not be cleaned. No disorder to-day attended the funerals of three of the victims of the riots last week. SUSPENSION OF PARLIAMENT ADVISED MR GARVIN'S VIEWS LONDON, February 11. Mr J. L. Garvin, writing in the "Observer," says: "The present French Parliament will never regain the country's respect and confidence. M. Doumergue's mixed Ministry is incapable of united electoral action. Therefore. M. Doumergue's best course would be to copy President Roosevelt and demand emergency powers to suspend the Chamber of Deputies in the interests of peace and stability and the future strength of France." POSSIBLE FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS PESSIMISTIC LONDON, February 11. Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., M.P., speaking at Stafford, said he believed that next week would sec the end of social democracy in France, leaving Great Britain the mly large social democracy in the world. If British Labour failed, social rteinusiaty .would disanpea*.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21088, 13 February 1934, Page 9
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