National Assembly for France
CONSULTATIVE BODY Totted Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. . After a long Cabinet meeting at Vichy to-day, Marshal P eta in announced that he intended to create a consultative National Assembly to advise him and share his responsibility. A communique issued later anlounced that the consultative Assembly vould replace the old Senate and Chamber of Deputies, from which full powers were transferred to Marshal Petain at the final meeting of the Conitituent Assembly on July 10. While awaiting a definition of the new Assembly, Marshal Petain has iecided to appoint a group from all sompetent orders to deliberate on joints determined by the Government. Thus a decision has been taken in jrinciple to creat a political body fully (epresentative, capable of advising the head of the State, and sharing certain responsibilities. M. Jacques Chevalier, the noted rrench philospher, has been appointed Minister of Public Instruction, succeeding M. Ripert.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 308, 17 December 1940, Page 8
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