FRENCH AUDIENCE OF ONE
COMMUNIST CANDIDATE’S RUSE LONDON, April 4. The Paris correspondent of The Times says that a new form of“reductio ad absurdum ” which is a favourite French political weapon, was invented by M. Doriot, Communist Mayor of Saint Denis, an inner suburb of Paris, and founder of the Popular Front. M. Doriot, because the Government banned his election meetings before the Clichy riots and French law holds that two make a private gathering and three a crowd, announced his intention of holding separate meetings for each of 24,000 municipal votes, the first of which was solemnly held in the Town Hall. M. Doriot was alone on the platform and the audience consisted of a doorkeeper whom M. Doriot conscientiously addressed for an hour regarding local affairs. A resolution asking the Minister of the Interior to approve of municipal gatherings was unanimously adopted by the audience and the meeting broke up without disorder.
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Southland Times, Issue 23166, 6 April 1937, Page 7
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