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Gabriel got into trouble. As president of the council which ran the Louvre, Frenchmen said, he had kowtowed to Pétain and the Nazis. His friends said that, if so, it was for the sake of art. But the taint of Vichy was on him, and after the war he was fired from the museum council...
...against a wall. We have to back neither the Communist Ho Chih-Mihn nor the imperialistic French and Bao-Dai. We can get tough with France, insist it set up a real government with popular support, not a puppet one universally disliked, staff the army with indo-Chinese, not Frenchmen, and let the country develop along national lines...
...with Nazi power crumbling, angry Frenchmen meted out Tommy-gun justice to suspected collaborators. France never announced how many people were killed in those bloody days. This month, the government produced the score: 10,522 Frenchmen were killed in "irregular executions"; only 846 collaborators were executed by the lawful courts...
Tires & Symbols. Frenchmen and foreigners alike rely on the verdicts of Michelin; over the years, the guidebook has built up a reputation for accuracy and incorruptibility. Its motto is Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin-roughly, "No pull, no bribery." Not a line of paid advertising is carried on its pages...
...Frenchmen like Pinay because he boldly attacked the problem that troubled them most: high retail prices. In his four weeks in office, butter prices had fallen from 880 to 760 francs per kilo; milk and cheese were down 15%. Pinay had worked no miracles (meat prices are still rising). As a right-wing businessman, he had merely consulted the men he knows best: France's business leaders. He persuaded department-store owners to back a price reduction campaign. He called it "Save the Franc." Some cynical shoppers thought the price cuts were more apparent than real; still, they were...