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...process of liberation, France's transportation system was crippled. After long undermaintenance, France's machinery needed major repairs. And the Allied military effort prevented major diversions for repairs, fuel or raw material. In the Paris area half the workers were unemployed. Germany had kept Frenchmen reasonably well by making them work for her. But the Allies had not yet found a way to let France work, even for them...
...French Government gasped with alarm at the latest report on the nation's diminishing birth rate. If the trend continued, by the century's end 40,000,000 Frenchmen would dwindle to 25.000,000 Frenchmen. How long could the Big Fourth even pretend to be a Big Fourth...
...facts of life were that no important repopulation was possible until the 2,500,000 Frenchmen held captive by the Germans came home to the bosoms of their families...
...campaign in five years. At stake in the balloting between April 25 and June 3 will be only municipal and departmental offices. National elections will come later. Women will vote for the first time in French history, and they will probably be a majority, since over 2,000,000 Frenchmen are still prisoners in Germany. But to France it was a proud achievement that she should be the first liberated nation to put her trust in the people's vote...
Cried Paris' famed funny sheet Canard Enchaêné: French lovers of the grape, beware! The Government plans "wine control!" Serious papers paid no attention. Frenchmen growled: Tu parles! (No kidding...