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...Frenchmen's Progress. France had progress to report in motorcar building. Production had already caught up with the prewar levels (in April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped...
...urgent appeal to the U.S. for special medicine--needed in Paris to cure critically ill Frenchmen--was picked up over shortwave as Parker was transcribing a broadcast for the Network's nightly foreign newscast in mid-evening...
...Most Frenchmen finally faced these choices last week, knowing, as one said, that they had been living in a fool's paradise. Last winter when they put down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy what they were willing to resist. They even left Communists in many key positions. Last week, when France signed with other Western Europe nations a military pact whose sole purpose was protection against Communism, France still had a Communist, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, at the head...
...violators were four Frenchmen accused (and convicted in absentia by drumhead courts) of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. The four were small fry compared with Count Jacques Duge de Bernonville (TIME, Sept. 20), who was still battling against a deportation order in Montreal courts last week. But they were guilty of the same offense against Canada's laws: entering the country illegally, on false passports...
...Order in Council, unpublished because it was supposedly of no public interest, Montel got the right to stay in Canada, eventually become a citizen if he desired. Included in the order were two other Frenchmen: Dr. André Charles Emanuel Boussat and Julien Gaudens Labedan. A similar order is in the works for a fourth small-time collaborator, Jean Louis Hue. The government's rationalization: "Well, they're here. They've got jobs. Let them stay...