Word: frances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried the leftist Franc Tireur: "Ramadier does not govern; he compromises. He does not act; he maneuvers. He does not decide; he parleys. He cuts the pear in two, gives the worse piece to his friends and the better to his enemies...
Comforting thought for Americans: U.S. money (frozen in France) was largely responsible for the French prizewinners. RKO put up half the money for the 100 million franc ($840,000) Silence; Universal, four-fifth's of Diable's 52 million...
Empty Comfort. Even leftists had their eyes opened. Wrote France's often pro-Communist Franc-Tireur: "In this sad adventure . . . Russia has wound up creating the very [Western] bloc she wanted to avoid. . . ." Wrote London's Laborite Daily Herald: "Russia's present policy is aimed calmly and deliberately at preventing European unity...
...last week, Roman citizens had a field day with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...
Trouble chez Renault. The crisis started when 2,500 workers at the nationalized Renault automobile plant struck for a ten-franc-an-hour raise. Their demands ran counter to the Government's hold-the-line policy (TIME, March 3), which the Communist Party (and its five Cabinet ministers) had approved. To deal with the situation, beetle-browed Benoit Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years...