The Archive · 1939

French Deputies

Electoral Reforms, Foreign Policy and — Financial Questions

Paris, Jan. 9. Perea for electoral reforms tabled by the Government durin new financial ial legislation will be the present session of Parliam which opens tomorrow, informed Political circles stated tonight.

The projects upon the financial Bui Of France will deal with revaluation of the Bank of France's gold stocks and conversion of the country's national debt.

The Leftist Opposition was prepared to fight the Government by Claiming old age pensions and an amnesty for those labourers who took part in the November 30 "general strike." Heated debates were expected over foreign policy, Lion Cage Used for Tipsy Drivers fence problems and colonial ques-Two law-abiding citizens of Brookfield, Illinois, pose in a lion's cage tions, which was borrowed from the local zoo to illustrate ithe suggestion of The Government was expected to Magistrate L. Gross that tipsy drivers of motor cars be paraded through table certain measures claimed by the town as a punishment for mixing liquor and gasoline. the new majority, which demands proportional balloting procedure for next elections. also intend to pursue money" policy and to introduce legislation to this effect.

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