Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-06-18 | Page 8 | Ballot Victory Poses Gaullist Challenge

I I A Unified France Banot Poses i iI I I I By Preston Grover Gro PARIS Tune June 18 The W-The The French middle parties have h beaten betten the thc Communists and the Dc De and have hl only to lo beat themselves themselves' into line They have not been I able alie to do rio it successfully in the thelast thelast I last four years ears I IThe j The trouble with the middle parties is that they are not nol trully trolly in the middle Politically the they spread all over the map On the extreme left are socialists who want to nationalize all industry and run France as Bs a welfare state On the right are arc capitalists who own o cloth mills coal mines and steel mills They have run them at a good profit for generations and want their sons ions sons to keep running running run run- ning fling them that way Efforts to find a middle way on which all could agree have I brought compromises stalemates I indecision and what the French call I. I Americans trying to restore France to its old position as a abib abig abig big bib power have almost gone crazy dealing de with such a situation The interesting big factor in inthe inthe inthe the new assembly is Gen Charles DC Do and his party parly De is not in the assembly y I bL bu those elected on his pal ty will vote vole his sentiments at at le est st i for awhile They range from m middle mid d- d I II dle dIe of the road to rightists I I