SOVIET POLICY CRITICISED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 7

SOVIET POLICY CRITICISED

SPEECH BY GENERAL DE GAULLE

COMMUNIST LEADER REPLIES (Hec. 9 p.m.) PARIS, July 28. General de Gaulle, speaking at Rennes, said that Russia was trying to establish, through her intermediaries, a regime of totalitarian dictatorship. “The Communist effort to stir up discord in France coincides with the foreign situation created by Soviet action,” he said. “At the moment when she affects to see a menace in any accord between the, western European nations, Russia is organising formidable grouping of states which it would be really derisory to present as having any independence.” The secretary of the French Communist Party (Mr Duclos), replying at Evreux, Normandy, to General de Gaulle’s speech, appealed to the “union of 'workers* forces” to take a firm stand against a “campaign led by the supporters of personal power.” Mr Duclos added: “General de Gaulle wanted to make the liberation of France a frork of a personal nature. It is impossible to govern France without the Communist Party, which represents the elements of order, understanding, and union.”

British Helicopter Tested.—The first British civil helicopter—the Bristol 171—has successfully completed its first test flight—London, July 28.