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dated March 24, 1954: France says no

The French Government is totally opposed to the merger of the four remaining French Indian settlements - Pondicherry, Mahe, Yenam, and Karaikal - with the Indian Union without a prior plebiscite, officials said in Paris on March 23. Transfer of these territories without a plebiscite would constitute a violation of the French Constitution in the view of the French Government, they said. But France is willing and ready to organise a plebiscite under international control, once India has lifted the economic restrictions which amount to virtual "blockade" of the four possessions, French officials said. Senior French Ministers, on March 22, agreed on the general lines of a note to be sent to the Indian Government, but it has been decided to postpone its dispatch until the Indian note protesting against the alleged intimidation in French India has been received here.

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