DE GAULLE’S RALLY DRAWS PEOPLE TO SUPPORT REFORM

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1947, Page 5

DE GAULLE’S RALLY DRAWS PEOPLE TO SUPPORT REFORM

(Rec. 9 50). LONDON, April 16 Queques lined up • outside three Paris branches of General de Gaulle’s new movement, “the Rally of the French People,” when they opened yesterday to receive applications for membership. The Times Paris correspondent says: The movement is not prepared to’accept all and sundry applications. Applicants have to assert, on their honour, that they have . never belonged to collaborationist organisations, and applications will be accepted only when the committee has examined each applicant’s interccdents. General de Gaulle’s supporters deny this his aim is to take over the Government of France. His first aim, they. say, is to secure the reforms on his programme. If the politicians now in power., bring about these changes, he will gladly return to retireir mt.