Paris, Dec. 27.
After lengthy debate on foreign Policy, the Congress of the French Socialist Party meeting here, passed the "resistance" resolution drafted by M. Leon Blum, by a majority of 4,322 votes against 2837 supporting the resolution submitted by M. Paul Faure. There were 1,014 abstentions. M. Blum's project advocates resistance against dictatorships and full enforcement of mutual assistance Pacts, including the Franco-Soviet treaty. M. Faure's motion advocates negotiations with all countries, ìncluding dictatorships, and rapprochement between France and. German; In his motion, M: Blum proposes a strengthening of the French national defence system and the formation of a national union cabinet. He also stresses that France cannot tolerate the conquest of certain places such as the Baleari Island or the Canaries by those who may prove her eventual enemies.
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