Fears in France

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 7

Fears in France

More Internal Strife FASCISM UNDER NEW NAME United Press Association—Electric Telegraph —Copyright. PARIS. Oct. 2. Fears of a renewal of internal strife were disclosed in an announcement that tho Government had ordered an investigation of the activities of tho .Social Party whieri Colonel de la Rocquo created following the dissolution of tho Croix de Feu. Colonel de la Eocque’s propaganda in North Africa is specially resented by the Communists and Socialists. The Government has also banned a Social Party demonstration and a Communist counter-demonstration which had been arranged for to-night, and has forbidden a lecture by M. Degrelle, leader of the Belgian Resists. In July it was announced that Colonel Francois de la Eocque would convert his Croix de Feu veterans’ organisation, or as many of it as would follow him, into the ‘‘French Social Party,” a move which was decided upon to avoid the consequences of the dissolution of tho body. At the same time Colonel de lr Rocque announced that he intended to seek “a conquest of power for the salvation of France.” The new party was sanctioned by the Minister of the Interior, who explained that as long as it remained a party of the Right of the same type' as the group headed by M. Louis Marin no objection would be taken to it. In the new organisation it was hoped to group all those who were not in sympathy with either Right or Left.