Financial Scandal Involves Huge Sum
Reeeived Monday, 8.10 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 3. • The Freneh National Assembly last night unanimouslv 'lemanded the stern punishment of all— ineluding Oabinet Ministers if neeessary — involved in the biggest financial scandal since the Stavisky swindles of 1935 which inyolved £7,000,000. The Daily Herald's Paris correspondfnt says a resolution which the Government accepted, calls for the names to be laid before Parliament before February 1. Leading items in the indictment [which is based on public audit reports £qt 1946/47, include, firstly, the accusa-
tion that a high officigl of the education Ministry paid 3,000,000 franes of the taxpayers' money for furniture apd carpet for his office; secondly, historie furnitnre and priceless tapestries were "b'orrowed" from State buildings and never returped; thirdly, the requisitioning "for dfficial purposes" of wine, brandy and even women ;s undercloth- . . A*1 L. - ' .*?. ' " .•
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 January 1949, Page 5
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