PETAIN ABOLISHES PARLIAMENT
VICHY, August 25. Marshal Petain has wiped out the French Parliament. A decree signed by Petain and Pierre Laval, the Prime Minister, has dissolved the French Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as permanent bodies. I The decree states that it is not considered necessary that the parliament- | ary bodies should continue in existence as they may not meet unless or until they are convoked by the marshal. Thus the present rulers of France have I eliminated from their official posts two of the notable figures of the French Republic in the past—Dr Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Jules Jeanneney, President of the Senate. According to a later statement Laval and Petain have had a long conference on the political situation in France.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19420827.2.38.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 24833, 27 August 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
131PETAIN ABOLISHES PARLIAMENT Southland Times, Issue 24833, 27 August 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in