Word: grabar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless Oleg Grabar '50, in this country only two months, contended that the election results really reflect the sentiment of the French worker. The "ouvrier" turning to the head of French wartime resistance has done so, he argues, feeling that Do Gaulle is "the only force who can expel the Communists from France...
...reversal of French leftist sympathy, grew out of the recent coal strikes which tied up more than 16 percent of the French Labor force. Socialist and Catholic Labor movements withdrew their support, Grabar added, when they became convinced that the stoppage was prompted by Communist hostility to the Marshall Plan, and not wage demands...
...Grabar and French Club President Vicas were wary of predicting what the future holds in French politics. "If De Gaulle could get a working majority with the Socialist and Radical Socialist parties, an unlikely situation," said Vicas, "he would call for a general election which undoubtedly would sweep him into power...