FRENCH ELECTIONS
EFFECT OF HITLER’S ACTION. CRY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.— COPYBIGHT.] (Received April 7, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 6. The “Sun-Herald” says: The general ©lection campaign in Fr'ance opens to-day. The first ballot occurs on April 26, and the second on May 3. 2730 candidates are nominated for, 615 seats. The majority of the candidates will disappear after the first ballot, when the four main parties will remain; Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists,. and. Croix de Feu and other '- Nationalists. The contest is more* obscure than for many years. Internal politics are tetill of first importance, but foreign affairs recently so monopolised the public's attention that the preliminaries and party grouping have lost much of their meaning. Left and Right, which were clearly divided in November, on such questions as the future of Parliamentary Government, economic and financial policy, and social legislation, are now confronted by the single issue of democracy versus Fascism, which has been transplanted from internal to foreign fields. Hitler’s violation of the Locarno Treaty enabled the Left to steal the Right’s thiinder, beause the question is not only the defence of France against Germany, but the defence of the democratic system against auto--1 cracy.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19360407.2.37
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 7 April 1936, Page 7
Word Count
197FRENCH ELECTIONS Greymouth Evening Star, 7 April 1936, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in