FRANCE: Amend the Constitution

Multiply a Vermonter by ten and you have the rugged individualism of a normal Frenchman. Such sweeping powers as are now held by President Roosevelt, the French people will grant to no President or Premier. To them last week it seemed a bold challenge when Premier Gaston Doumergue announced that this week—so help him—he will demand that the Constitution be changed to give a Premier of France roughly the powers of a Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Any day of the week James Ramsay MacDonald...

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