Paris, Mar, 19.
A motion of confidence in the Government was voted by the Senate this afternoon at the close of a hing debate on measures taken against foreign propaganda in general and Hitlerite and Communist activities in particular.
During the debate, the Home Minister, M. Albert Sarraut, went into details and said: "It is German planes that are, dropping Communist "['leaffers $n France."
After passing the motion of confidence by a count of raised hands, the Senate also adopted the Bill providing that Deputies already condemned for their anti-national activities should be deprived of all political rights.
Senator Charles Reibel asked for an explanation of the continued rein France of the former Republican Spanish Foreign Minister, M. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, and his wife. M. Sarraut, as Home Minister, Tecalled that Dr. del Vayo had been given refuge in France when he had fled from Spain but as the Spanish statesman, possessed no legal visa, he was sen! to three months' imprisonment though on March 16, last year, he had asked to be allowed to the Mexican Labour Congress and had been permitted to do so. While there in Mexico, M. Sarraut recalled, Dr, Del Vayo defended France against German propaganda about the Spanish refugees. He had then re-fumed to France and placed himself at disposal of the French authorities, "While these debates went on in the Senate today, the Chamber of Deputies began a session in camera at 3.15 pin. to discuss a number of interpellations on the Government's conduct of the war and its initiative in the Finnish affairs, Debates there were interrupted at 835 pin. for dinner and were then resumed at 10 o'clock.—Havas.
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