The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09

the Chamber or DepuJleS ana approved.
 The action by the chamber fol- lowed an explanation by Vice-Pre- mier Pierre Laval, prime mover in the Petain regime, of the purpose of the constitution.
 The size of the chamber vote came as a surprise as 1t had been reported that only about 250 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 50 sem ators were present at the temporary French, ciptal of Vichy.
 The resolution approved by the chamber today will be placed before the senate this afternoon. It must then be considered by the national assembly tomorrow but approval by to1norrow's session was regarded as a formality with assent certain.
 The text of the draft resolution by which the French parliament vir- tually approves its own death sen- tence was as follows:
 "The National Assembly gives full powers to the government of the republic under the signature and authority of Marshal Petain, presi- dent of the council, in order to create by one or several acts a new constitution for the French state. This constitution must guarantee the rights of labor, family and the fatherland.
 "The constitution will be ratified by the assembly which 1t will have created"
 The chambers action was at the recommendation of committee of deputies headed by Jean Mistler, radical socialist deputy and member of the governments of Albert Sar- raut and Edouard Herriot.
 Shortly after action by the cham Der the juridical committee of the French senate gave approval to the draft resolution. The committee in- cluded 2i senators headed by Sen. Le Courtois.,
 It was forecast that swarthy Pierre Laval, a former premier who long advocated friendship with Ger many and Italy, would be the real power in new government with 84-year-old Petain as "chef du pouvoir executif"( chief of the executive power)
 There was some doubt that a quorum of the senate and chamber could be obtained, but according to dispatches from Vichy, Laval and his supporters were in no mood to permit technicalities to obstruct them and the national assembly would act regardless of the absence or many members.
 Under the Laval program there is to be an upper chamber, repre- senting professional, intellectual ano economic interests, and 8 lower chamber containing representative of family and cooperative interests presumably along the lines of tht Italian Fascist chamber of corpora tionS.
 Laval explained his program fol the constitution of two new houses at a caucus of senators yesterday.
 According to Vichy dispatches when the national assembly meets he will ask a blanket vote of confi- 1enee in retain who at the gravesi hour of our history, has placed his person and his prestige at the dis position of the nation in its distress.
 A brief bill will give Petain fun powers to evolve a new constitution "based on the rights of labor, the family and the fatherland."
 Rome, July 9-(UP)-The news paper La Tribuna said today that despite Frances turn to a Fascist like government, she would be treat ed with "the most severe justice because she "so obstinately involved herself into the conflict notwith- standin gthe possibilities offered hel tcp avoid it."
 Messaggero said in a similar vein "it is in the interest of the beaten always to attempt to change theil policy to gain some advantage. This time these attempts have no chance of meeting success. The enemy re. mains what 1t is-a beaten enemy and as such will have to come te accounts"
 Following reports that Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzc Ciano had discussed with Adolf Hit. Ter at Berlin Sunday the axis powers plans for reconstructing Europe after the war, the Commercial newspaper Stampa Sera at Turin said the prob. lem of redistributing gold, of which the United States has 30 per cent must be solved.