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...will take many months and years to repair France's 1,500,000 destroyed buildings, 2,000 wrecked bridges, 2,400 miles of torn railway, and all the other injuries to docks, fields and plain people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy...
...national election day (Oct. 21), Frenchmen also will vote whether 1) to draft a new constitution, 2) to leave General de Gaulle in power in the interim. Some Frenchmen who oppose De Gaulle, whom the leftist Franc-Tireur recently cartooned as holding the "Apple of Discord" (see cut), are for a new constitution. In any case, if France votes as she did last week, General de Gaulle will remain at the head of the Government, supported by Bidault and Blum. Maurice Thorez' Communists and Edouard Herriot's Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist) will...
Since, by Government order, no paper which published with German permission could reopen, only five of Paris' prewar dailies are still in business. Their successors - there were twelve on Liberation Day, 31 now - are skimpy, cautious, color less. Some (the best: Combat, Franc-Tireur, Resistance) came up from the underground, and are mainly leftist and critical of De Gaulle. Newer dailies are mostly rightist, 100% pro-De Gaulle...
...TIME [July 2) an article on Monaco states that of all the changes wrought by war at the Casino, Prince Louis was most disturbed by "a U.S. and a French slot machine, both geared to take i-franc coins...
...good Prince had possessed the keen scent of an avid slot-machine addict he would have been disturbed way back in 1933 - for I still recall as my most embarrassing moment standing at the cashier's window requesting change of a 10-franc note for my father who, though not the least interested in gambling, had discovered a dusty old slot machine in a forsaken corner of the famous Casino. I changed the lowly 10-franc note and Father broke the slot machine. Really...