The Archive · 1938

Break with Communists

Daladier has openly broken with the "Communist Party, one of "the principal elements in' the Popular Front of France, observers declared today commenting upon his speech. The Premier clearly gave his reasons for this attitude, The Communists manifested total opposition to the Government's peace Paris, Oct. 25, M. Leon Blum's Socialist Party have issued a stalement "recording with satisfaction" the increase in the Party's representation in the Senate from three to four members og a sult of the week-end elections.

Conservative Paris newspapers interpret the results as a "blow to the Popular Front," and comment on the Polley when they voted og: inst. the fret that the corrected final figures Munich "Agreement. and when ly show that the Radical and Repub-they criticized the Government's lican Socialists have lost ten seats tions. Communist leaders have cam-between them, as against only two eigned against increased production seals gained by the other members in French industry even though this of the Popular Front—Reuter,

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