Word: humanit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christ . . . has given himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only the Communist daily L'Humanité threw a solid brickbat: it felt sure that Billy was a tool of millionaires "employed in the crusade against socialism...
Communist newspapers in the West are too dull even for Communists. At a meeting of France's Communist Central Committee, Party Secretary Etienne Fajon, 48, explained why the circulation of France's Communist L'Humanité has slipped from 500,000 to 120,000 in the past nine years. Said he: "L'Humanité is boring. The paper suffers from a series of consecrated formulas and stereotyped vocabulary . . . Our journalistic language is frightfully poor. This comes from a paralyzing fear of not using the same terms as the party's official documents...
...seeming response to Fajon's orders, L'Humanité promptly filled its columns with sports news, nonpolitical features, and sensational six-column spreads on murders. Last week the paper even used what it would have regarded in the past as a "bourgeois" circulation slogan, suggested by a suburban Paris party cell. The slogan: "Every morning, your bread, a good cup of coffee and L'Humanit...
...monster is dead . . . the era of the lie is ended," proclaimed the leftist Combat. The Communist Humanité crowed: "A great victory." Pro-EDC critics charged bitterly that Mendès had allowed the 99 Communist votes to decide the fate of France. Mendès apologists insisted that had the debate continued to the bitter end, the anti-EDC majority would have swelled to about 115, enough to kill EDC even without Communist help...
...Bastille Day parade. Though he was being kicked upstairs, Baylot was not disturbed. Said he: "We have broken the back of the Communist Party here. They would not dare stage a big demonstration now." His parting gift last week came, ironically, from the Communists: not only did L'Humanité lose its suit against him, but it was ordered to pay Baylot 300,000 francs ($857) for "the offensive character of its unfounded assertions...