Senate Unanimously Grants Plenary Powers M. Daladier to Have Free Hand for 6 Weeks Paris, Apr. 14. AFER his impressive success in the Chamber of Deputies, M; Eduard Daladier, France's new Premier, gained another overwhelming victory when the Senate unanimously passed his Finance Bill conferring plenary powers on the Government to deal with outstanding financial and social problems until July 31. Official figures of the division showed that 290 Senators voted for the measure and none against, but the Radical originally given as the only one to vote "No," was later included among the "Ayes." Before the measure reached the Senate the Financial Commission of the House unanimously approved it with only one member abstaining. Both the Chamber and the Senate have now gone into Easter recess, giving M. Daladier a free hand for the next six weeks.
The sudden improvement in the French political situation has created a most favourable impression among London financiers and, while some of them temper their optimism with caution, there is a feeling that at long last the affairs of France are heading in the right direction, While it is realized that the financial and economic measures proposed by M. Daladier are obviously inspired by M. Leon Blum's plan, many people applaud the omission of such measures as exchange control and a capital levy.
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