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While Communists and Socialists traded light lefts & rights, the new Rightist Republican Party of Liberty jolted some of its case-hardened reactionary supporters with a manifesto: "The [May 5] referendum victory, which calmed the fears of all Frenchmen loving justice and freedom, cannot in any way be interpreted as a vote in favor of a return to social conservatism...
...First Tunic." In the midst of national confusion, President Félix Gouin kept a Socialist calm, said, "The main virtue of the Constitution is that it exists." Other leaders deplored the possibility that Frenchmen might plump for the Red-inspired charter simply by default. Philippe Barrès, editor of Paris-Presse, put it this way: "What would worry me . . . would be the spectacle of a people so disillusioned as to adopt a new Constitution in the same way as a conscripted soldier arriving gloomily at the barracks accepts the first tunic which a sergeant tosses...
...voting day all forecasts of an apathetic electorate proved wron?. Some 19.000.000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen trooped to the polls. By a decisive majority France voted...
...Most Frenchmen had less time than Bardoux to analyze the issues. They got little help from the French press, dazzled by the return to France of peacetime plenipotentiaries...
...week's end the wise money in Paris was betting seven to five that most Frenchmen would vote "yes" in the Constitution referendum. If they did, M.R.P.'s seven months of cooperation might end soon-with M.R.P. tossed out to make way for a Government of the Left...