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...Paul Ely outlined France's catastrophic military situation to the Defense Committee. Two days later L'Express (edited by Jacques Servan-Schreiber and then in stout support of Mendès-France for Premier) printed the secret plan to send conscripts to Indo-China. Ex-Police Commissioner Baylot testified he had done nothing about the leaks. Pleaded Baylot: "You know.how it is. Whenever you signal something like that, somebody will tell you he'll take care of it. And if you insist that something be done, then they insult you and call you a McCarthyite...
...Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took office, he neglected to tell his successor Mitterrand about it. Bitterness increased as Mitterrand began cleaning out Martinaud-Déplat's protégés, fired Prefect of Police Jean Baylot and demoted Dides from his Red-hunting job. Then, say the theorists, the plotting began. Certainly, Dides scarcely acted like a disinterested cop. When he learned through Baranés of new leaks, Dides did not tell his boss Mitterrand; he took his information to an old right-wing Gaullist...
Jean Dides used to be an eager Communist-chasing cop. He was the principal lieutenant of Jean Baylot, former prefect (chief) of the Paris police, a white-hot hater and hounder of Reds...
When Premier Pierre Mendès-France came to power, Baylot was removed (TIME, July 26), and Jean Dides was transferred to a relatively minor job. But Dides was so in love with his former work that he went right on beagling about in the Red netherworld...
Last week the Mendès-France government announced that Baylot had resigned from his job and would be given a "high diplomatic post." This done, the Mendès-France government, on its own, banned the Communist Bastille Day parade. Though he was being kicked upstairs, Baylot was not disturbed. Said he: "We have broken the back of the Communist Party here. They would not dare stage a big demonstration now." His parting gift last week came, ironically, from the Communists: not only did L'Humanité lose its suit against him, but it was ordered...