SOCIALIST PRESIDENT
GENEVA STATE COUNCIL. CLEAN SWEEP OF OFFICIALS. Received Dec. 5, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. M. Leon Nicole’s first act after being sworn in at St, Pierre Cathedral as president of the Geneva State Council, which the Socialists captured last month, was to hurry to the Town Hall and make a clean sweep of the higher officials suspected of hostility to the Socialist cause. Others will be dismissed or told that they will be dispensed with at the end of the year. M. Nicole recently completed a nine months’ sentence in connection with the riots on November 10, 1932. He refused the customary oath of office on the Bible, used since Calvin’s time. His attitude has aroused intense feeling against the Socialists, and a demonstration is feared.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 288, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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