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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, December 13, 1953 HODGES OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 1011 BROAD AVENUE ALBANY, GEORGIA PHONE: 6-4863 • Authorized Sales and Service Agency For Remington Rand GABLE RADIO SERVICE Bonded Electronic Technicians THE FIRST IN TELEVISION IN ALBANY Albany's Oldest Philco TV Dealer PHONE HE. 2-6363 306 FLINT AVENUE GAULLIST FOLLOWERS CRUSH REDS, GAIN CONTROL OF NEW FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Best Wishes VENTULETT & PACE • 100 YEARS INSURANCE SERVICE 309 Pine Avenue Albany, Ga. PHONE HE. 5-4551 BEST WISHES ANDERSON ROOFING CO Post Office Box 567 ALBANY, GEORGIA By Martial Massiani (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) PARIS — Right-wing ele ments backing Premier Charles de Gaulle crushed France’s com munists into near oblivion as a parliamentary force and gained overwhelming control of the country’s new National Assem bly. 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Formed recently by Informa tion Minister Jacques Soustelle, who played a prominent role in the uprising which brought Gen. de Gaulle to power, the UNR is considered as the most “Gaul- list” party of the near dozen which claimed full support for the French Premier. Its victory went well beyond unofficial estimates based on the first round of elections held a week earlier, when 150 seats were expected to go to the UNR in the final ballot. Second largest winner was the conservative Independent party which collected 132 seats, a gain of 24 over its representation in the previous National Assembly. Christian Democrats of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) registered a loss of 14 seats, collecting a total of 57. Equally hard hit was the Radi cal party, which toppled from its former representation of 72 to 35 seats. But the most spectacular loss es were registered by the Com munist and Socialist parties, which pitted their strength against one another and lost out to right-wing candidates under the majority electoral system employed for the first time in 22 years. In previous post-war elections political parties have been rep resented in the National Assem bly in proportions to their shares of the popular vote. This year, however, seats were given to candidates who obtained an absolute majority in the first round—39 were elected this way —or bv a simple majority in the second and final poll. The Socialists, who obtained 15.4 per cent of the total popular vote, collected 40 seats instead of the 92 they previously held. More crushing even was the defeat handed the Communist party. While claiming 20 per cent of the popular vote, it managed to preserve only 10 of the 144 seats it occupied in the last Na tional Assembly. The notorious "Red Belt” comprising workers, districts surrounding Paris was torn to shreds as the communists lost 13 of the 18 seats they obtained in former years. The most resounding losses oc curred in the poorer districts of Montreuil and Le Chapelle, where prominent Communist party leaders Jacques Duclos and Jeanette Vermersch were defeated. Party boss Maurice Thorez was elected in his stronghold at Irvy by a scant majority of three per cent of the votes. The Gaullist tidal wave oust ed in wholesale fashion most of the prominent figures of the Fourth Republic, including five former Premiers: Socialist Paul Ramadier, Radicals Pierre Men- des-France. Edgar Faure and Edouard Daladier, as well as Independent Joseph Laniel. 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