DILEMMA IN FRANCE
Uneasiness Felt In Britain
(Special Correspondent N.ZP.A.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, January 4. A sombre note is sounded by British newspapers commenting on results of the French elections. Roughly condensed they express uneasiness for the future of France.
The Times says that the results are “even more ominous than had been expected,” for hbout one-third of the new Assembly is made up of Communists and Poujadists who, in their different ways, “are determined to destroy'the Parliamentary institutions of the fourth Republic.
“Mr Poujade's followers are as parochial in their thought as they are destructive in their aims. It is thanks to them that Frenchmen, who only recently were being offered the leadership of Europe, have been reduced to squabbles over the taxation of green-grocers.
“Parliamentary parties find themselves in a most unenviable dilemma. If they unite to form a government they will find it hard to agree on a minimum programme that they will be open to the old accusation of ‘immobilisme.’ as well as to the charge that all the battles between the orthodox parties are reallv shadow boxing.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27859, 6 January 1956, Page 9
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