FRENCH SECRET SESSION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 10

FRENCH SECRET SESSION

Dispelling Of “Certain Legends” UNANIMOUS VOTE All Parties’ Support For M. Daladier By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. PARIS, February 11. The secret session of the Chamber of Deputies, which was held on Friday, adjourned and was resumed yesterday at 9.40 a.m. It later closed and the Chamber publicly voted unanimous support for the Government. An all-party resolution authorized the Premier, M. Daladier, to “conduct the war to victory.” The motion of confidence said that the debate was characterized by high sentiments of patriotism and expressed the Chamber’s confidence that the Government would carry on the war to ultimate victory.

The President of the Chamber said that the secret session had enabled certain legends to be dispelled and the comforting truths to be established. It had also revealed national unity which no one desired to destroy, as it was founded on liberty and passionate love of country.

The activities of the Gestapo, Io which M. Daladier referred before the secret session was held on on Friday are discussed in the Baris Press. They arc directed mostly at attempts to split French and British opinion. The newspaper “Oeuvre” gives examples of these attempts, and says that a number of letters have been posted in France stating that Hie French are dying for England because the English do not fight wars themselves. [Before the Deputies by a. surprise majority vote on Friday decided to hold the secret session, M. Daladier, saying that there were still many spies in France, disclosed that during the searches police had found a Gestapo (Nazi secret police) questionnaire to German agents in France asking them the strength of the police force, who were M. Daladier’s friends and enemies, the attitude of the French people toward England, details of France’s Arab and coloured troops, whether the Chamber had confidence in M. Daladier and so forth.]