WHAT DOES de GAULLE WANT?
Reeeived Tuesday, 8.40 p.ni. LONDON, April 8. "What does General de Gaulle want i All he waiits is for the Frencli people to rally round his own name, " said the leader of the Frenc-h Bocialists, M. Leon Blum, in an interview with the Dailv Herald's Paris correspondent. M. Blum added that General de Gaulle wanted to destroy the present institutions whie.li had heen ratiiied hy a free vote. I1--wanted to suppress or eompress tlie Par liamentary system entailing the ahdication of national sovereignty. "The Soeialist Partv is 011 the side of the Kepublic., " he added. The Frencli radio refused to relay General de Gaulle 's speech, says the Daily Express iStrashourg correspondent. Luxeuibourg radio agreed to relav Lt hut tlie Frencli refused the use of their landlines. Tlie speech was re corded and records taken a hundred miles hy car to Luxembourg wliere ii was broadcast. The Communist newspaper Humanite described General de Gaulle 's Strashourg speech as an aggression against the Frencli Kepuhlic. "He has not put for ward a single constructive idea, " it states. "The speech amounts to a series of vulgar propaganda slogans. " The Indepeiideirt Right Wing newspaper Epoque said General de Gaulle, as usual, Jiad appealed to reason and not to passion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1947, Page 5
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