SEEKING STABILITY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 7

SEEKING STABILITY

Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, September 5. General de Gaulle, broadcasting over Paris radio on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the French Republic, said: "During the 21 years between the wars there were no fewer than 20 different heads of the French Government, who among them formed 45 Administrations, not counting minor reshuffles. This happened at a time when the prospect of a new war became increasingly menacing, while everything called for thorough economic, social, democratic, colonial, and military reforms. "It is obvious to all Frenchmen that another system of representation will be necessary to give expression to the real ideas of the Republic, if France is to survive. If the French people answer affirmatively the question, 'Do you want the Assembly you are electing to be a constituent Assembly?' in the forthcoming referendum they will manifest a desire for a new system under which our affairs will be organised from the beginning and will no longer remain liable to new crises, "We have many social, economic, political, and democratic reforms to carry out. We must, in world politics, take our rightful place among the nations. "French men and women, you are present at the birth of the Fourth Republic. Long live the Republic! Long live France!"