Camille Chautemps, was read by the Minister for Air, M. Pierre Cot, addressing the people of Paris wit a call to rally to the standards of ihe Front "French democracy is more united, more ardent since the oath of July 14, 1936, despite many obstacles, The Popular Front is not an enterprise for discord, but an instrument necessary to weld a new, more human society."
All the speakers who followed emphasized the necessity for maintaining the Front intact against the forces of financial oligarchy.
M. Jacques Duclos, the Communist, declared, "Once more, the Communist Party wants to affirm its readiness to shoulder all its share of the responsibility in Popular Front Government,"
The Radical-Socialist parliamentary leader, M, Elbel, declared his party, Of which the new Premier is member, remained absolutely loyal to the programme laid down in the agreement of July 14, 1935, and the necessity of close unity, M. Leon Jouhaux, secretary of the Confederation Generale Travail, Said the C.G.T, would defend to the limit the labour improvements enacted thus far—Havas,
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