FRENCH LEGISLATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 306, 24 November 1945, Page 5

FRENCH LEGISLATION

STRICT TIMETABLE PLANNED. (Rec. *11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 23. General de Gaulle has asked each of his four Ministers without portfolio to take special charge of specific questions, says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. M. Autiol (Socialist) will be the leader of the Assembly, M. Thorez (Communist) will preside over and coordinate reform of the civil service, M. Gay (M.R.P.) will co-ordinate German and Austrian affairs, and tho Moderate Republican (M. Jacquinot) will preside over Alsace-Lorraine and North African affairs.

General de Gaulle has again insisted on the need for following a strict timetable and observing the ' order of importance in new legislation. He placed the new Constitution first, but pointed out that this was in the hands of the Assembly. He laid great stress on the need for effecting civil service, magisterial and army reforms. School administration was already being created where future diplomats, Generals and Treasury officials will spend part of their training period. General de Gaulle, in the economic field, has given the highest priority tb nationalisation of the banks and electric power. He has asked the Finance Minister (M. Pleven) and the Industrial Production Minister (M. Paul) to produce joint laws on these subjects by -Tuesday.