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Show FRENCH SENATE BACKS DALADIER PARIS, Oct. 5 UU'The Senate today voted Premier Edouard Daladier full financial powers to meet the emergency arising from French mobilization during the European crisis. The Senate and chamber previously had approved the cabinet's foreign policy. Thp senate vote was 2S6 to two, with two communists opposing. op-posing. Immediately thereafter it suspended sus-pended sesions for a parliamentary parliamen-tary vacation, leaving Daldaier a triumph on foreign policy but a split in the popular front uniting the radical socialist, socialist and communist parties since 1936. It seemed that the popular front as a solid political bloc was at an end. The socialists abstained from the final vote on the Financial Powers bill. The communists com-munists voted against it. It was forecast that one of the government's first moves under the financial powers act might be to revalue the gold reserves of the Bank of France. This would not involve a further fall in the rate of the franc. |