CHANGES IN RUSSIA
The New Constitution
PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM
(Received February 3, 11.40 p.m.)
• , London, February 3. Tlie “Daily Herald” expects that the new Soviet constitution will be ready for ratification in the present year, substituting a parliamentary system on Western models for the 1918 constitution with universal franchise abolishing the existing exclusion of the bourgeois and providing for secret ballots and direct representation of the people in the all-union parliament and other parliaments of each republic. The "Daily Herald” quotes M. Mol'> tov, President of the Council of People’s Commissars, as saying: We are going to try to adopt the best ele : ments of the parliamentary system, even though it may cause some amusement abroad. It is understood it is intended to place peasants on equality with industrial workers.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 111, 4 February 1936, Page 9
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129CHANGES IN RUSSIA Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 111, 4 February 1936, Page 9
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