NEW POLICY IN EUROPE
Effect Of Failure Of E.D.C.
(N2 ~ Pres» Associatton—CopuTight) :(Rec.Bp-m.) PARIS, August 31. France will soon ask Britain and the United States to discuss future Allied policy in Europe after tU National Assembly s death blow to the European Army plan, political observers in Paris predicted today. The Prime Minister (Mr Mendes-France) is expected to pat forward new proposals for a defence system toffli tu void left by the Assembly’s action. the
In the meantime the French political scene hafe dissolved in a senes of resignations and party expulsions as a result of the 319 to 264 vote against thi Com! jnunity.
One Cabinet member, the near Radical Minister of Labour Mr Eugene Petit, has said he will resign todav—he wX«i ntiflcaUon of E.D.C.—and has said that others wfil follow him.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27443, 1 September 1954, Page 11
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