English Translation

-13 - 30 Stabilization of the French government apparatus by the radical socialist party under the leader D a l a d i r was pushed back the KPF, which was so tonic in the people's front, and succumbed to the demands of the radical Socialist party, which a government, excluding the Communists and deliberately abricking from the People's Front, supported. The constant anchoring of the Daladier government made the communist influence more ineffective. Already at that time, in view of the concentration of the socialists and the central parties, a serious political crisis began for the Communist Party and for its position in the union. Even if daily newspapers of the CPF were banned at that time, the friendship pact concluded by the Soviet Union with Germany in the declaration of war between France and Germany brought the CPFA, which had to comply with the direct instructions of Moscow, in decisive opposition to the French government and the other parties. A consequence was that in September l939 the KPF was banned with all its divisions and subsidiary organizations. - f such a prohibition was prepared the KpfF according to its con - spirative instructions. The inclusion of the transition to illegality was thus a far-prepared and fast-performing measure on the part of the management of KPF. For reasons of camouflage, the French "workers' and peasants' party" continued to be founded.