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FRENCH PREMIERS PLAN TO CARRY OUT HIS PROGRAM PARIS, France, Nov. 18. Premier Eduard Daladier today defied rising leftist agitation against his three-year national reconstruction program, pledging to his supporters of the radical socialist party his determination to carry through his plans regardless of opposition. Daladier told the radical socialists that he plans to ask parliament on December 6 for temporary grant of full power. If he obtains this power he will decree prorogation of parliament for two years. The grant of such a decree will be followed by dismissal of the parliament on "vacation." With parliament out of the way the premier will rule during the period of his three-year plan without heeding to face parliamentary complications. He explained to his supporters that in order to make his program work he would -need to operate for the most part without parliament. If the chamber of deputies refused to grant the full power needed to permit the prorogation decree Daladier will call for the dissolution of parliament. It was believed here today that President LeBrun and the senate would grant such a request. It was the general opinion in conservative circles here today that failure of Daladier to carry through his plans may result in chaotic conditions. The ultimate result, according to these observers, would be some form of exchange control which, they say, could operate only under some form of authoritarian rule.. ,
