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Thrown among the Communists in Paris' suburban Red Belt, the abbés' working-class enthusiasm got the better of them. When the Red workers marched, both priests joined in and were pinched...
Paris' tough police force, bruised and angered by Communism's May 28 Ridgway riots, made a shocking discovery last week. Two of the rioters whom they locked up and manhandled were Catholic priests in workmen's clothes. Abbés Louis Bouyer, 35, and Bernard Cagne, 28, are ordained members of the Mission de Paris; like 85 other French "worker priests" (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), they live and work with their flocks, do not always reveal themselves as priests, seek to convert by example as well as by precept. Bouyer earns his daily bread as a production...
Home for the Hopeless. In the Legion's headquarters at Algeria's Sidi-bel-Abbès, which looks like a set from Beau Geste, Legionnaires speak often with scorn and sometimes with hatred of the nation that hires them. Lili Marlene, sung in German, is heard on their lips more often than La Marseillaise. The 35,000 men of the Foreign Legion offer their lives to France and keep their loyalty for each other. Ask a soldier in Sidi-bel-Abbès his nationality and he will usually reply, "I am a Legionnaire...
Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...
...abbé even has a project for parlaying his winnings. Having received countless letters asking him the secret of his luck, he intends, he says, to tell all in a brochure which he will gladly mail, postpaid, to anyone-"on receipt of 200 francs, French money...