FRANCE NEAR FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL ABYSS
Received Monday, 10.10 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 5. General de Gaulle today pictured France as "trembling on the brink of a financial and social abyss within, and threatened from without by two-thirds of Europe directed implacably by the Russian dictatorship." Speaking at a mass meeting in Vincennes, General- de Gaulle added that France, if she remained in a state of crisis,- would soon be the plaything for outside competitions while peace lasted, and an invasion target for one side and a bombardment target for the other in the case of war.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 October 1947, Page 5
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