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German Communists are yelling for the Ruhr more loudly than any other Germans; French Communists are yelling for the Ruhr more loudly than any other Frenchmen. It pays on both sides of the boundary, and doesn't matter much to Moscow, which knows that the Ruhr's fate will be decided by the Big Three, not by France or Germany. Of course, on questions really important to Moscow, foreign Communists reverse their nationalist line. For instance, genuine French nationalists see a military advantage in France's participation in a Western bloc of nations. But French Communists bitterly...
Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
...campaign out of petty details and up to the plane of principle. The Reds were beaten as soon as the M.R.P. succeeded in showing voters the connection between undemocratic provisions in the Communist-drafted constitution and a possible future Communist dictatorship. Freedom v. slavery is not a choice that Frenchmen find hard to make...
Nevertheless, millions of patriotic Frenchmen refuse to deny the patriotism of French Communists because of the Reds' really glorious record in the Resistance (once Russia was in the war). Leaders of anti-Communist parties have until very recently softened their attacks on Red leaders because they remember the years of danger shared...
...four singles matches against Great Britain the Frenchmen didn't lose a set. But the whole show looked more like public-park tennis than Cup matches. Whoever wins the European Zone finals-France, Sweden or Yugoslavia-will still have a long way to go for a chance at the Australian cup holders...