FRANCE: Oil & Pacifists

Dragging a $156,710,400 deficit behind it the French budget moved from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies last week. MM. les Deputies proceeded to increase the deficit by 846,000,000 francs and sent the budget back to the Senators again. Premier Daladier's is the job of forcing some sort of a compromise, and bringing the budget to final vote without losing his government, a business which Deputies, Senators and Cabinet all view with marked disfavor. Canny Socialist Deputies found a way of postponing the fateful day by attaching a rider to the...

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