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ith the highest participa-
e. Of electors since thé Sec-
my orld War — 22,600,000
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nt) — de Gaulle’s cam-
&n of pressure, propaganda
ppaeoey netted him 17,-
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han 83 percent partici-

cals, the Mitterand Radicals,
the Depreux’s' New Socialist

Party and others was not fol-

lowed by any appreciable num-
ber of voters.

The success of the propa-
ganda campaign conducted by

de Gaulle’s Information Mini-

ster Jacques Soustelle exceed-
ed even the most optimistic de
Gaullist predictions.

Big business exploited its
monoply control of the sour-
ces of information to the full.
Soustelle completely took over
the country’s radio and tele-
vision outlets, Of the national
dalies, only two, Humanite
and Liberation, called for a
No vote. In the provinces, only
one important newspaper op-
posed de Gaulle.

But the fact remains that the
17,500,000 people who voted
Yes had many different, and
even.contradictory, conditions
in mind.

Certainly a large number
voted Yes because they thought
that anything was better than
the previous state of affairs.
A large number simply voted
on the basis of de Gaulle’s war-
time prestige and his supposed
aloofness from party politics.

But an even larger number
also voted Yes under the il-
lusion, consciously fostered by
de Gaulle’s evasive remarks
since he took power four
months ago, that he could solve
the Algerian situation.

Etienne Fajon member of
the French Communist Party’s
political committee and direc-
tor of Humanite, acknowledged
that “de Gaulle has obtained
the Yes he demanded.

“He obtained it by the twin
means of demagogy and divi-
sion.

“The furious campaign of
the millionaire press, of the
radio completely taken over,
of a propaganda machine with
huge means, has succeeded in
misleading or confusing a part

‘of the population.

‘De Gaulle has benefited
above all, as he did last May,

m the unreserved support
of Guy Mollet and other lead-
ers of the Socialist Party.

“In swinging the congress of
their party for a Yes vote the
Socialist leaders weighted the
balance in favor of dictator-
ship, while at the same time
they raised obstacles to the
rallying of the democratic
forces and disorientated parts
of the workers and ofthe petty
bourgeoisie.”

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| CONFERENCE STAND

“7 British Labor Party

would halt H-tests

LONDON — The British Labor Party, at its annual conference in Scarborough last
week, overwhelmingly endorsed the executive's foreign paljcy statement, including a, pledge
that the next Labor government will stop British nuclear weapon tests.

But Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell took some of the edge off this decision by strongly de-
fending Britain’s participation in NATO which bases its plans on nuclear warfare.

Aneurin Bevan, foreign min-
ister in Labor’s shadow cabi-
net, emphasized that a vast
change in the international at-
mosphere would result from
the stopping: of H-tests and
would lead on to .a wider
range of aggreement on dis-
armament.

Strong appeals that the
party should present a united
front on foreign policy in view
of the next election played a
major part in the result of
the debate.

As anticipated, the main
point.of dispute. was unilateral
disarmament, for which ef-
fective speeches were made,
but the. supporters of this
proposition battled against the
feeling that their policy would
divide the Labor movement
and make advance to nuclear
disarmament much less likely.

The Fire .Brigades Union’s
resolution declaring that the
next Labor government should
cease unilaterally to manufac-
ture and test nuclear weapons
was defeated by 5,611,300 to
890,000 on a card vote.

Bevan _ concentrated . his
speech on theree points: 1, La-
bor’s Middle Eastern policy;
2, Its attitude to the H-bomb
tests; and 3, Cyprus.

He insisted there must be
agreement on the Middle East
based on a guarantee of oil
supplies through commercial
arrangements rather than
threats of force.

Oil revenues. should be
shared so that Arab. states
which are rich in oil will help
Arab states which are poor in
oil.

It was the essence of wis-
dom, he insisted, that the
Soviet Union should be in-
vited to participate in develop-
ment of this region.

In defining a‘Labor govern-
ment’s attitude to the manu-
facture of H-weapons, Bevan
gave his opponents a_ handle.
’ He said in effect that it was
impossible to declare Labor’s
policy on stopping of the man-
ufacture of the bomb as’ dis-
tinct from stopping of tests
until Labor became the gov-
ernment: and got to know ex-
actly what the situation was.

As the basis for solution of
the continuing crisis in Cyprus,
Bevan demanded talks _be-

Defeat of Dr. Edith Summer-
skill (above), former cabinet
minister, for re-election to the
British’ Labor Party’s execu-
tive is attributed to the de-
sire of right-wing trade union
leaders to punish her for her
itatements during the Suez
crisis which drew heavy fire
from the Tory press.

tween the government and
Archbishop Makarios.-He de-
nounced the Macmillan Plan
to partition the island, which
touched off a two-day general
strike in Cyprus when it went
into effect on October 2.

In a_ subsequent ‘speech
Dennis Heatley claimed that
the policy document Bevan
had introduced had given a
completely new alternative
foreign policy to that baséd on
the cold war.

This was repeated by many
subsequent speakers, including
Konni Zilliacus and Philip
Noel-Baker. This is, however,
not quite true.

There is, in the document,
an uneasy mixture of new
progressive proposals. with
some left over from the cold-
war stage.

Emrys Hughes, for example,

Left vote increases

STOCKHOLM — Sweden's
recent local elections showed
that the left-wing vote had
risen nearly two percent since
return of the Social Demo-
cratic government, backed by
tthe Communists, last June.
The increase, from -49.6 to
51.4 percent, was almost
equally divided between
Social Democrats: and
Communists.

called the attention of the
conference to the paragraph in
the document which supported
the continuation of NATO as
a regional system of defense
and pointed out that the whole
strategy of NATO was based
on the H-bomb and on tactical
nuclear weapons. :

A notable feature of the de-
bate was the absence of the
right-wing speeches heard in
previous years extolling the
H-bomb as the great deterrent.

Among its decisions on for-
eign policy, the conference:

@ Adopted the executive’s
international policy declara-
tion.

@ Demanded talks between
the government and Arch-
bishop Makarios on Cyprus.

@ Rejected by 5,611,000
votes .to 890,000 a motion on
unilateral nuclear disarma-
ment.

@ Rejected by 5,349,000 to
1,026,000 one demanding no
rocket bases of any kind in
Britain. :

@ Rejected by 5,538,000 to
1,005,000 one pledging a La-
bor government to invite all
powers to join in an organiza-
tion designed to eliminate by
agreement and inspection the
testing, manufacturing and
use of nuclear weapons.

® Rejected by 5,705,000 to
840,000 one calling for total
disarmament.

@ Approved extended East-
West trade despite Gaitskell’s
complaint that it tock two to
make a bargain and Soviet
purchases in Britain had not
been up to expectations.

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