FRENCH COMMUNISM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 8

FRENCH COMMUNISM

REVOLUTION POSSIBLE

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LONDON, 17th Nov. The problem of Communism in France is attracting wide attention, says the Paris correspondent of the “Times.” An article in the Revue des Deux Mondeg urges co-ordination in international opposition to Communism, and asks what is the use of expelling Avcos from London, when its agents are established over the way at Boulogne and Amsterdam.

The writer does not believe that a revolution in Paris is impossible. Communism is widely permeating the unorganised workers, ho says. The police are reliable, but they are insufficient and too immobile. l lt is doubtful, furthermore, whether the garrison of the Paris municipalities are reliable, because they would be without orders, and, besides, the French troops have a marked dislike to marching against 'the people. There is no plan for meeting a Bolshevik rising in France, ho says, and a definite scheme should be prepared, since the discontent underlying Bolshevism cannot be cured by the bayonet.