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Five million Frenchmen vote Communist, more than vote for any other single party. Paris' monthly Realities asked the French Institute of Public Opinion to find...
French Communists, said Realities, are Frenchmen first, and Communists afterwards. Most are industrial workers (38%) and housewives (22%) who support the Communist Party in the hope of "better working conditions." Only one in ten is interested in the "class struggle"; even fewer in foreign policy. But a huge majority (65%) want cheaper bread...
...underground in two wars soon dwindled when, in 1945, as a crusading member of the Paris Municipal Council, she succeeded in closing the city's brothels (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945 et seq.). Deprived of their comfortable evenings in such ill-famed establishments as Le Sphinx and Le Poulailler, Frenchmen sneered as the once systematically supervised prostitutes took to the streets and alleys of Paris to ply their trade. The venereal disease rate soared and even Marthe was forced to confess that her noble experiment had failed. However, she said, all the difficulties were the fault of legislators...
...labored to build a wall to contain Communism. The German peace contract would complete that wall in Europe, the European Army give the West means to defend it. Schumacher, with his obstructionist "Yes, but" hopes to defeat both plans. Why? "We are neither Russians nor Americans nor Britons nor Frenchmen," he says. "We are Germans. We in Germany promote neither Russian nor American nor British nor French policies. We promote German policies...
...lovers trooped in to see the show at the rate of 1,000 a day. Consensus: a thumping success. Even the left-wing Franc-Tireur was full of praise: "The show is a festival of rare quality, a festival both for the eye and the heart." The only Frenchmen who took no pleasure in the whole thing were the Communists. Asked why he didn't go and have a look at the exhibit (which contains eight of his paintings), old Party-Liner Pablo Picasso said: "I have no time...