18 FEBRUARY 1955, page 4

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PINEAU WITHOUT THE PRINCE Through the Socialist leader, M. Christian Pineau has agreed to try to form a new French Government, it remains to be seen whether he will be able to......

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T HE proposal that capital punishment should be sus- pended for five years was duly defeated by 245 votes to 214. The Manchester Guardian seems to think that those who voted......