Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month's constitutional referendum the party had blundered badly. It failed to prevent the Catholic M.R.P. from lifting the referendum campaign out of petty details and up to the plane of principle. The Reds were beaten as soon as the M.R.P. succeeded in showing voters the connection between undemocratic provisions in the Communist-drafted constitution and a possible future Communist dictatorship. Freedom v. slavery is not a choice that Frenchmen find hard to make...
Thorez was quick to realize his mistake. At 9:30 on "referendum night," the big four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez...
...midnight, while the other parties and observers were still hesitating about the outcome of the referendum, the Communist Party had already accepted its defeat, defined and blamed certain errors which had contributed to that defeat, and laid down its new strategy...
...Lowell House Committee Monday provide for annual re-election of committee members, chairmanship tenure of one year, and a fixed number of members on the committee. A written House constitution which may be adopted next fall would include these provisions plus two proposals now under discussion: a referendum and alterations in the nominating process...
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...