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Last May François Billoux, veteran Communist Deputy from Marseille, was called to the Kremlin. Alarmed by the prospect of German rearmament, he ran up the signal for Approach No. 1: hardcore violence to wreck NATO before it is too late (TIME, June 9). Billoux's instructions were published in the Reds' official monthly, Cahiers du Communisme: 1) no more popular-fronting with the bourgeoisie-they have become "chambermaids of American imperialism," and must therefore be destroyed; 2) less talk and more action...
...word article plastered across two full pages of Paris' Communist L'Humanite, Fajon reprimanded his sinning brethren. French Communists, he scolded, had relied too much on "sectarianism," i.e., pure revolutionary violence, and not enough on the "revolutionary combativeness" of the popular masses. That Comrade Billoux only a few weeks before had ordered them to do what they did was no excuse: if the Politburo had seemed to err, that was because the "deviating" French had misunderstood. They had also confused the task of the moment-the fight for "peace against America"-with the task of the future, which...
...awful fact was that the Ministry of Health, under Communist François Billoux, was pussyfooting a plan (some said a ten-year plan) to discourage the consumption of alcohol by a long-term rationing of wine. The Ministry wanted to encourage the consumption of fresh fruit juices, by promoting the soft-drink industry and setting up soft-drink bars beside village and city bistros. The immediate purpose was to conserve alcohol for military needs. The long-range purpose was to conserve the national health...
...division in the country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...
Communist François Billoux, youngish (41) ex-dockhand, ex-Deputy, now a French Committee Minister Without Portfolio, pledged his party to cooperation with all other parties, no matter how Rightist, so long as they had not sold out to Germany. Said he, reversing the old Communist tenet that stormy weather is good weather: "We do not want civil war. We fear that civil war might completely destroy France. We could not build Communism on a ruin...