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...King. Even more devastating is Le Canard Enchaine, a six-page weekly with a circulation of 290,000. Founded during World War I, Le Canard Enchaine (The Chained Duck) is French slang for a censored press. It carries no advertising, makes no profit, and barely pays the salaries of the editors who own it. But its news sources are among Paris' best, and it often manages to print as gossip what more serious journals dare not print as news, is closely watched by politicians and Cabinet ministers for its reflection of the country's temper (at least three...
When Charles de Gaulle emerged from his twelve-year retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Canard hailed him as Christopher Colombey, and celebrated his crusading zeal by calling him "Charles d'Arc." But lately Le Canard has taken to picturing De Gaulle with a crown and wearing the robes of Charlemagne or Louis XV ("Aprés le déluge, moi!"). As the Sun King himself, De Gaulle is shown crying: "Bread! Next, they'll be asking for cars and washing machines...
Moody Regime. Since Gaullists worshipfully hail their leader as "mon general," Le Canard catches the mood of the regime with a whole series of possessive pronouns. Unpopular Premier Debré is referred to as "Mondebré" or "Monsatel-lite." When the French colonies disappointed De Gaulle in 1958 by choosing independence rather than autonomy within the French Community, a cartoon showed De Gaulle saying to Debré: "If you ask for independence, I'll explode...
...devote themselves to the study of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. For most of them, it was largely unfamiliar territory. So far, the most common preliminary response was to find more similarities than differences between the two candidates (see cartoon). More maliciously, Paris' satirical Le Canard Enchainé saw the election as "Tricky Dicky v. Johnny the Pinup Boy." And Paris-Jour called it a "fight of middleweights." On the strength of their own interests, their instinctive prejudices and a considerable amount of downright misinformation, the nations of the non-Communist world last week were starting...
Foreigners visiting the unfamiliar New World have their problems, though it is just a canard spread by Columnist Art Buchwald that a Frenchman wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation...