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...holding out our hand to Moscow," quavered the 77-year-old marshal, "we have held it out to Communism. . . . We are bringing Communism into the circle of admissible doctrines. We probably shall have reason to regret it. I am anxious, anxious for the safety of France and for Frenchmen's liberties...
...next Premier of France, but comparatively few wiseacres thought that he would. Party leaders knew perfectly well last week that their huge vote was less a vote for Socialism than a vote against the bourgeois Radical Socialist Party which has dominated the Chamber since 1895, and which most Frenchmen feel was responsible for the Stavisky Case and the black eye that scandal gave their country. For years the technique of French Socialists has been to dodge the responsibility of government, heap scorn on those who must accept...
...Parisian Communist is not a Muscovite one, and Frenchmen can wave the tricolor, forgetting the apparent anomoly of the white and the blue on the banner. It has long been merely a question of time before France would have to make up her mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years...
With the Communists alone having won as many seats in the new Chamber as the whole Rightist coalition put together, the reaction of Frenchmen to the siren song of Fascism has formed the most violent political gesture of any recent election. For the victory of the Left can be explained only by the fact that the French have made up their minds once and for all that the propositions of the Croix de Feu and the parties of the "interests" hold no lure any longer. In holding the fort against the attacks of the reactionaries during the trying days...
...Author Landau credits Frank Buchman with being "the most successful and shrewdest revivalist of our time." However, Author Landau finds Buchman's movement theologically frivolous, grows sarcastic at the Oxford Group's practice of suppressing or "sublimating" the sex impulse. "Five 'sublimated' Arabs, Italians or Frenchmen," says Pole Landau, "would prove the efficacy of Buchman's sex methods more convincingly than 500 English undergraduates...