CLEAR SETBACK TO RUSSIANS, SAYS PARIS PRESS
(10 a.m.) PA.RIS, Dec. 6. The anti-Commumst newspapers hailed the results of the Berlin elections as a clear setback to the Russian attempts to control the capital. The Socialist newspaper, Populaire, says: “The Communists, despite intensive propaganda, suffered defeat. Will the Kremlin finally realise that it still is not too late to settle the Berlin dispute through four-Power discussion?”
The Popular Republican newspaper l’Aube said the elections showed the new magistral which the Communists forcibly established “is an infamous comedy.” The Communists newsaper l’Humanite commented: “The testimony of the Anglo-Saxon agencies is sufficient to show in what atmosphere of police constraint and even terrorism this so-called electoral consultation took place.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22813, 7 December 1948, Page 5
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