Popular Democrat Party Joins Voice to National Insistence on Empire Unity; Nazi Claim Repeated Saint Etienne, Nov. 20.
HE National Congress of the Popular Democrat Party unanimously adopted today a declaration rejecting the eventuality of any negotiations, under present conditions, relative "to any part of the French colonial empire, French protectorates or territories under mandate."
This Party, which is of Liberal Catholic tendencies and which has as one of the leaders, M. Champetier de Ribes, Pensions Minister, also affirmed the necessity of pursuing a policy "maintaining all the elements that make up the power that is France."
On the internal economic and financial situation, the Party proclaims the need for heroic remedies and approves the recent decrees of the Finance Minister, M. Paul Reynaud.
"Any solution that would be reached easily, would inevitably result in the progressive establishment of worse internal measures," the declaration concluded.—Havas.
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