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...slight case of press control as dangerous as a slight case of cancer. Communists and Socialists feared a return to France's prewar corrupt press standards, which reached the reeking point in the '30s when Le Matin and other papers sold out to the Germans. The Communist Humanité tiraded against allowing the press to be controlled by the wealthy, warned that "trusts" must not "dominate public opinion contrary to real freedom." In the drafting committee, the Communist-Socialist limitations on press freedom were approved...
...France the press gave equal space to Bevin and Vishinsky-except the Communist Humanité, which gave it all to Vishinsky...
...vital interests ... of an impoverished and anemic France" endangered by the strike. After seven days the strikers went back to work, still smarting at the treatment they received from a Government predominantly composed of professed friends of labor. The printers, however, had the last word. When the Communist Humanité approved Croizat's stand, Parisians had no chance to read the party line. Union printers found two passages offensive, ran big white blanks instead...
...F.F.I, colonel, Jacquot, received a medal and a Gallic kiss, for gallantry in action, from the French First Army's General Delattre de Tassigny. Nevertheless the F.F.I, remains wary. Last week they complained about lack of weapons for Maquis still fighting Germans in western France. Growled the Communist Humanité: "Is that fifth-column work in Paris...
...Bordeaux, erudite and witty, never one to take to the streets for demonstration, this tired, stoop-shouldered veteran perhaps hoped he could save his job on the basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang the bells for patriotism, called Kaiser Wilhelm II "that mad dog." An expert on Italian radical movements, he later encouraged Editor Benito Mussolini, of Milan's Socialist journal Popolo d'ltalia, to plug hard for Italy's entry into the war on France...