EDOUARD Daladier, the Premier, broadcast to the last night declaring that the total failure of strike called for yesterday, had shown the confidence of the Kenerat the country in the Government, All the vital activities of the
seriously troubled, Pointed out, had been freely carried on and order had not" country, "I was certain of it," the Premier continued. "Li I was enough for me to have read the thousands of letters and telegrams. when I received after my speech on Sunday evening, I said. that would make the authority of the State respected, and it has. bry respected. I put my confidence in the workers and they respongcy to my appeal, protected by republican legality, M. Dalidier declared that the people of France knew that their liberties "were not endangered, They understood that what might endanger them were disorder and lack of dis+ cipline.
I was precisely in general strikes that other countries" opened the way to dictatorships. The people of France had proved that democracy, when it wished, could prevent dis: order, M, Daladier declared, The world, he added, knew now that France had triumphed over internal uncertainty, and was stronger: today than before.
"We shall know how to organize the fruitful ce-operation of workers and employers in a spirit' of mutual understanding," the Premier concluded. "The country will become still more noble and more proud, and each Frenchman will find his share of happiness and peace in duty.
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