25-Day Political Crisis In France
(Rec. 11 p.m.) PARIS, August 3. In a fresh effort to end France’s 25-dav political crisis, the President (Mr Vincent Auriol) to-day called on Mr Rene Pleven, a Radical deputy, to form a Government. Earlier to-day. the National Assembly refused to endorse Mr Maurice Petsche (Independent Conservative) as Prime Minister. Mr Petsche failed by 33 votes to gain the required absolute majority of 314. Votes cast against him totalled 101, with about 240 abstentions. Among the deputies who abstained were the Socialists and the de Gaullists.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 7
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