Word: humanite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a proud papa recounting the feats of his offspring, the Communist organ L'Humanité* ticked off the high spots of 20 days of anti-American activity in France. Item: at Revel, in Haute-Garonne, "300 peasants tore up surveyors' markers at a new military airbase." Item: at Saint-Quentin, "youth made a fire of joy out of the tracts and brochures of the [American] occupation." Item: at Toulouse, "street parades against the arrival of munitions . . . from across the Atlantic...
France's Communist L'Humanité last week called Letourneau "the fierce advocate of a fight to a finish in Viet Nam." As such, he is the best guarantee of the Pinay government's intention to yield neither to the Communists nor to parliamentary critics who want France to cut her $3,000,000-a-day losses in Indo-China and concentrate her military effort on defending the homeland and French North Africa...
...wettest June in Paris' memory. "Summer already?" grumped the Communist L'Humanité. "And what about spring? A day without sunshine, or a meal without wine, that's bad enough-but a year without spring, that's indeed a hard blow. And all this is again the fault of the Americans. Not only do they occupy our land . . . but they shut off our sunshine!" The Communist journal then expounded a thoroughly unlikely theory that France's bad weather was the direct result of U.S. atomic experiments on faraway Eniwetok Atoll. "Thus," it cried, "while...
...conservative Le Figaro raised his brows and drily observed: "It is very curious . . . that the American warmongers' bombs should be the only ones that react on our umbrellas. The peacemongers of the Little Father of the Peoples can experiment with their atomic weapons without L'Humanité noticing the slightest disturbance...
Next day L'Aube woke up and apologized for its blooper. It had mixed up the biographies of new ECAdministrator William C. Foster, New York businessman and Republican, and still-militant U.S. Communist Boss William Z. Foster, no kin. Cried the Communist L'Humanité: the story was an insult to William Z. Foster...