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...conservative Figaro, France's former Ambassador to Berlin, André François-Poncet, also worried. He wrote: "What may be clear to an American élite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors. . . . There are plenty of people in America for whom Europe is a sort of lunatic asylum, a basket full of peevish crabs...
...these wholesome doubts and cautions had to be understood against the background of the basic French reaction. TIME'S Paris Correspondent André Laguerre summed it up: "The fear that Americans may not back Marshall to the limit is the only factor tempering the enthusiasm of French opinion-just as the fear that the D-day landings in 1944 might not be successful added anxiety to that great news. In the French mind, the two events can be compared without injustice...
...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
...eloquent, nervous French voice last week gave an answer to the clamor of crisis. The answer: De Gaulle. It was a startling new voice in the Gaullist camp. André Malraux, once one of Communism's most stirring defenders, had become De Gaulle's pressagent. The story of his metamorphosis reflects the mental tribulations of many Europeans, less articulate than Malraux, in the great crisis of their civilization...
From Casablanca TIME Correspondent André Laguerre cabled: "The French settlers are worried about governmental instability in Paris, worried about Socialist direction of imperial politics because they think Socialist theorizing does not fit in well with the hard realities of administering a mixed nation (Arab and Berber) where democratic slogans have little meaning for the natives...