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Many other Frenchmen felt the same way; 28% of them stayed away from the polls. A high abstention rate was expected to work in favor of the Communists, who do not stay home. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister and Provisional President Georges Bidault's Catholic Progressive M.R.P. made an amazingly good showing, and was about even with the Reds, who lost votes for the first time since liberation. The Socialists lost even more heavily than last time...
...Britain, however, are small compared to those between the U.S. and the rest of the world. As one U.S. expert put it last week: the London conference will have achieved a great deal if it merely manages to express our official free trade policies in terms that Czechs, Frenchmen and Ecuadorians can understand, even if they do not agree...
...crisp, sunny day Frenchmen last week reluctantly adopted their 14th Constitution-a tripartite compromise draft neither rightist fish nor leftist fowl-rather than heed the adamantine voice of General Charles de Gaulle. Final score: 9,126,370-to-8,043,366 (complete except for a few overseas votes). Explained a Paris shopkeeper...
Aloof Charles de Gaulle could claim at least a half victory. The vote showed that he could not buck the coalition, but he had emerged the largest single influence in France, larger than any one party. Frenchmen wondered if De Gaulle would accept (if offered) a presidency which, as set up in the new constitution, he considered weak and ineffectual...
With one fight over, Frenchmen at week's end had plunged into another four weeks of vigorous campaigning. Next month they would choose regular deputies to the new Assembly and Council of the Republic...