In today's communique, following the meeting of the Council of Minis ters, Marshal Pelain made it clear that he would not hand over to the: new "Assembly any part of his legislative and administrative thority.
The new Assembly will be unlike the old Parliament in that it will not veneral elections, hold a deciding Vole on a declaration of war or deal with national expenditure or adminis~
The new administration wil have anything to say abc because when 20 provinces yet to be defined are designated, they will be put under Governors who will be responsible only and directly to Marshal: Petain, The French press announced M., Laval's removal on Saturday as) Prench Vice-Premier and Foreign inister without comment, merely reproducing texts of Marshal Peiain's. Fadio announcement, naming the out the fourth Constitutional an ch named M, Laval as Marshal Marshal Petain, in a message to Chancellor Hitler' which was repro-feed in an oficial eummenique, said hho had dropped M. Laval from the Cabinet for reasons of "internal policy." which is regarded here as absolute faet—United Press, Knudsen Demands
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