FRENCH SOCIALISTS

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 21, 19 October 1944, Page 5

FRENCH SOCIALISTS

Proclamation Of Aims (Received October IS, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 18. A poster containing a statement of the aims of the Socialist Party is the first French political proclamation to be widely posted outside Paris, states Reuter's correspondent at the United States Third Army headquarters. It has appeared in towns and villages as far distant as the Moselle River. The Socialists in the lust French Parliament, elected in 1930, held 140 seats of the total of 618. The proclamation, calling for political and social liberation, declares that: the programme of the National Council of Resistance must be put into effect. This programme demands punishment of traitors, a purge of the administrative personnel, and national control of production. natural resources, banks and insurance companies. The Socialist Party, fully aware of the tremendous new factor introduced by women’s suffrage, appeals to the women, .who will be voting for tlie first time in France’ in the next election, ns well as to the men. . An official decree published in 1 aris today states that all the property the Vichyites confiscated during tlie German occupation will be resto’red to its rightful owners. Reuter's Paris correspondent says I lie decree means that prominent Frenchmen and also the .Masonic societies and the Jews will now be able formally to recover their property. General de Gaulle himself has a small property in the Haute Marne department. Tlie Vichyites confiseiited Illis, and also seized Ids furniture in Paris, which has now been recovered and installed jn a small house lie lias taken in Neuilly, a residential suburb of Paris. The Paris correspondent of Iho Times” says that the report cabled yesterday that Plaion and I’ellepoix, two members of llm Vichy Government, were shot at Limoges, is stated to be premature.