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...Reds had known that the strike calls would hurt their position inside France; they struck in spite of this because of two motives more important to world Communism than its popularity with Frenchmen. The motives were...
...battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
...Concentration of Authority." Caught in a crossfire from Gaullists and Communists, Premier Ramadier blasted back in both directions and looked behind him for shelter. Shelter there was: immediate stopgap aid from the U.S., Marshall Plan aid behind it, unwavering support from a large and determined minority of Frenchmen who are not yet impelled to choose between De Gaulle and Stalin...
...himself was involved in a bang-up brawl. At a Communist rally, he invited a foolhardy heckler, Socialist Jacques Karaimsky, to come on up and say his say on the platform. Karaimsky did: "Perhaps you have forgotten that . . . Moscow used to feed Germany with wheat and gasoline to kill Frenchmen. And why did Maurice Thorez desert in 1940?" Thorez flushed, then leaped at Karaimsky, and punched him. Some 1,700 other comrades tried to rush in on the single, unarmed blasphemer. He was dragged out of the meeting hall more dead than alive. A LIFE photographer who recorded the scene...
...France Is Threatened." This Communist behavior, matched on the international scene by the emergence of the Belgrade Comintern, had a great deal to do with the election results. It had helped persuade 6,000,000 Frenchmen that De Gaulle spoke the truth when he cried, two weeks ago in Algiers...