FRENCH LOCAL ELECTIONS
COMMUNIST FAILURE APPRAISED
“ DAILY TELEGRAPH ” URGES CAUTION
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 29. “As a test of public opinion, the results of the French local government elections are somewhat obscure, but what is not obscure in the least is that the Communists have suffered a substantial rebuff,” says the “Daily Telegraph” in a leading article. “It is all the greater because the Communists fought these elections on national issues, notably the Atlantic Pact. “At the same time, the statement by the Minister of the Interior (Mr Jules Moch) that the Communists have been ‘virtually wiped out’ should be received with caution. The Communists polled well over 1,000.000 votes, and though this total was achieved by putting up candidates everywhere and therefore by showing their full potential strength, neither France nor her friends can be wholly freed from anxiety. “There is some distance still to go before a fifth column of that size can be converted or discounted.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25766, 30 March 1949, Page 5
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