NEW PARTY NAMED
“RALLY OF FRENCH PEOPLE” PARIS, Apl. 14. General de Gaulle formally announced the formation of the “ Rally of French People ” movement, and the fact that he was leader. He said: “ The rally’s aim is to promote above our divisions a union of our people in an effort to renovate and reform the State.” M. Jacques Soustelle. 1 the rally's secretary-general, who was General de Gaulle’s war-time chief of secret service, announced the creation of party offices in every department in France. General de Gaulle said the nation must be guided by a coherent, ordered, and concentrated State capable of choosing and impartially applying measures demanded for the public good. “ The present system under which rigid and opposing parties divide all power must be replaced by another in which executive power will come from the country, and in which the people themselves will decide all insoluble conflicts,” he said. He added that every frenchman knew the country’s fate was at stake in the present situation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5
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