The Archive · 1940

French Communist Deputies Expelled

Heated Exchanges Between

M.M. de Kerillis, Flandin Paris, Jan. 17.

The Chamber of Deputies yesterday Passed a bill expelling Communist Deputies, 521 to two, after accepting October 26 as the date by which Communists will be required publicly to dissociate themselves from the Communist Party so as to continue their mandate from the people.

In the heated oratorical duel before between M. Henry de lis and M. Pierre Etienne Flandin, M. de Kerillis declared Chancellor Adolf Hitler had enrolled partisans among the French policy makers.

M, Flandin sharply rebuked M. de Kerillis and explained that he was in favour of the Munich settlement merely because it was impossible to go to war ut that time.

Speaking on behalf of the Government, M. Camille Chautemps, Vice-President of the Council, expressed gratitude over the unanimity of the Chamber in its denunciation of the Communists and stressed that the Government is not flinching before its duty. "Thousands of searches and arrests are being constantly operated throughout the nation," he declared—United Press.

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