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Meantime, foreign correspondents in Paris received elegantly printed invitations asking them to a "cocktail de la paix" to be given the following evening, from 6 to 8,-in the offices of the Communist daily paper, L'Humanité. Eyebrows shot up, for it was the first time "L'Huma" had ever done anything like this. Few foreigners ever get past the guards at the entrance of the paper...
While the Assembly "debate" was going on, the Communist paper L'Humanité pushed out an extra with two-inch headlines in red ink: "Alerte! Ils Veulent Assassiner la République!" The paper screamed that "the American party tears up the constitution. . . . Workers, democrats, patriots, you have the strength to prevent the crime ordered by the exploiters and imperialists of New York." Pouncing quickly, M. Schuman charged L'Humanité with criminal incitation to revolt. Police invaded the newspaper's plant, smashed the plates...
...Salle Wiagram an organization called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union! The way to prevent the meeting is to get there first...
...Chat." Just how insidiously ubiquitous U.S. comics could be was something even the editors of L'Humanité had apparently not realized by last week. In its customary position in the same issue was the latest installment of the adventures of "Félix le Chat," drawn by U.S. Artist Otto Messner, supplied with French-text balloons, and syndicated by Hearst's King Features...
...seemed likely to win by a tiny margin, but the outcome depended on the disgruntled M.R.P. (Catholic Republicans), which lost heavily in the elections, and which also opposed last week's Cabinet cuts. The cuts were derided by a Communist writer in L'Humanité and by an anti-Communist writer in L'Epoque, both of whom by coincidence hit on the same sarcastic phrase: "A poultice on a wooden...