“UNITY” OF FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 6

“UNITY” OF FRANCE

UNDER NAZI PLANS CONTROL OVER COLONIES SOUGHT. "CORPORATIVE ECONOMY." *By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright * (Received This Day, 11.55 am.) LONDON. February 2. The German News Agency stated that a new political movement had been founded in Paris entitled the Reasscmblernent National Populaire. Its programme states that the reconstruction of France depends on the unity of France with Europe in the accomplishment of a national revolution. The foreign policy of the movement includes defence of the mother country and colonies and co-operation m the political, spiritual and economic reconstruction of Europe and the exploitation of Africa by European and Franco-German co-operation. The movement also advocates the purification and perfection of the race, and the physical and spiritual resurrection of the French nation. The economic programme provides f*>'- the establishment of a corporative economy, directed by the State, a currency guaranteed by the nation’s work, an improved standard of living, th*- abolition <>f unemployment and the restriction of large business concern--.