TRUCE BETWEEN PARTIES

Chronicle (Levin), 27 June 1946, Page 5

TRUCE BETWEEN PARTIES

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French President's Appeal NEW GOVERNMENT'S AIMS

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Received Thursday, 11.50 a.m. PARIS, June 26. The head of the new French Government, M. Georges Bidault, speaking in the Assembly, called for a truee between the parties while the importaiit international conference was being held at Paris and while the new French constitution was still unwritten. He said that ^the Government, realising its Muty to end as quickly as possible France's uncertainties, would strive to ensure the es•tablishment of a definite regime by the end of October. Until then the Government did not intend to take measures committing future generations. M. Bidault expressed the Government's and the nation's gratitude to General de Gaulle, "the true interpreter of resistance who is not with us to-day." M. Bidault said the trade union claim for increased wages was among the most urgent tasks, and only "national poverty" imposed the hard neeessity of not doing all that might iegitimately be hoped for the working class. Envisaging the gradual relaxation of rationing, M. Bidault declared that excessive control paralysed trade and resulted in black-marketing. The Government intended shortly calling an economic conference to study the lowering of price levels and the promised efforts of reform in Government finances, but the short time allowed the Government prevented an extensive reform or nationalisation programme. Foreign policy would be dictated by considerations of French security and a determination to eliminate aggressive elements throughout the world, he said. "We will maintain friendship a-nd alkance with the great nations who" aceompanied us in the struggle to victory."