FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
M. AURIOL ELECTED PRESIDENT
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) PAIRIS, Jan. 14. The Socialist, M. Vincent Auriol, was ■elected the president of the French National Assembly, securing 294 votes out of 572. The MJR.P. candidate was second, with 194 votes. The Leftist Republican Union candidate, M. Petit, although not officially a candidate, his supporters having decided at the last
minute to • withdraw his candidature, received 75 votes. Right Wing deputies and several Radicals walked out of the Assembly Chamber when the oldest deputy, M. Marcel Cachin (74), who was presiding, used his opening speech to propose that negotiations with the Viet Namese should be resumed. M. Cachin said that the French workers considered it dangerous to undertake another colonial war. Violent protests from the Conservative, M.R.P„ and the Radical benches greeted his statement.
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Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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