LESSON OF THE ELECTIONS
li'ccidvcd Tucstiay, i.-J.i p.ia. LONDON, Nov. 12. Tlic greatest lessim of the French ilci-ti.ms is ihe failurc of tlic centrc parties — Socialists and M.R.P.. says the Timcs ' Paris eorrespunilont. .Modcratc iijdnion liioxcd to 1 nc right wliicli is a triuinpli for dc Gnalle. The AI.lt. P. 1,,-t ."iiHi.iino Mitcs to tlic P.K.L., and it is ditfirnlt to a\oid tlic conclusion that tlic .M.ILP. w 1 1 1 dc drivcn to Ihe Right just as tlic Socialists may well lie ilriven to tlic I.et't. The clcavagc beluccii tlic niiddic class and working i-lass in l'rancc will still'cn the Right liito tlic Opposition which niay becoinc lcss parlinmentaty. Tlic corrcspondcnt cxpresses tlic opinion that if thcrc were a danger of a brcach in the prevailing fonn of dcmocracy in l'rancc, it was tuilikcly to conic froiu tlic t'oninmnists but from the Kightists nnaldc to reconcilc tlieinsi'lvcs and seeing power slipping peaeei'ully into tlic liands oi' tlic l.cftists. Tlic Daily Mall. in a lcader, says the r'i cnc'n Socialists are being grouiul to nothiiig in tlic confiicl bctwccn Right a nd Lcft, just as tliey were in Lenin 's Ru-sia and Ilit ler 's Gernianv. The fate of soi-ial dcniocracy in Kurope is nmt'dii'd by that of thc Libcrals' in Britain. The ncivspapcr cxpresses the opinion that thcrc scems 110 100111 for luiddlc of thc way nmv ict ions.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 November 1946, Page 5
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230LESSON OF THE ELECTIONS Chronicle (Levin), 13 November 1946, Page 5
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