FRENCH ELECTIONS
FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN LIMELIGHT DEMOCRACY v. FASCISM [By Telegraph- £\c3s Association-Gjpy right j LONDON, April 6. The bun-Herald Service says that the general election campaign in France opens to-day. Ihe first ballot occurs on April 26 and the ballot on May 3. Two thousand seven hundred and thirty candidates have been nominated for 615 seats. The majority of candidates will disappear after the first ballot, when four main parties will remain—Communis:S Kadi'-nl Socialists, Croix de Feu ami other Nationalists. The contest will be more obscure than for many years. Internal politics are still of first importance, but foreign affairs have recently so monopolised the public’s attention that the preliminaries ami party groupings have lost much of their meanings. The Left and Right, which were clearly divided in November on such questions as the future of Parliamentary Government, economic and financial policy, and social legislation, are now confronted by a single issue, Democracy versus Fascism, which is transplanted from the internal to foreign fields. Herr Hitler’s violation of Locarno has enabled the Left to steal the Kight’s thunder, because the question is not only the defence of France against Germany, but the defence of the democratic system against autocracy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 7
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