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...shocked public the party organ Humanité explained next day that the Communist jurors had struck because, of 105 Vichy officials indicted, two alone (Darnand, Laval) had been given death and most of the others had been flatly, or virtually, acquitted. In the Chamber, Communist deputies demanded the High Court be reorganized; they demanded an Assembly-elected prosecutor (rather than an impartial state appointee), and wanted the jury's secret deliberations opened to the public...
...apparently infinite power was finite after all. Le Canard Enchaîné ran a cartoon of a fashionable woman refusing a rendezvous the day before the test: "I really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined Nelson's hat falling off in Trafalgar Square." Japan was hardly more interested. Said Mrs. Kiku Mori...
When the French got their country back, any paper which had appeared during the occupation was suppressed. Of the big prewar Parisian papers, only a handful (notably the Communist L'Humanité and the Socialist Le Populaire, which were suppressed, and the conservative Le Figaro, which had scuttled itself rather than publish under Nazi rule) are left...
...slightly larger than Chicago, 30 dailies decorate the gay kiosks of the Parisian boulevards. Outstanding among them are the Communist-tinted Ce Soir (circ. 536,000), which concentrates on a robust sports section; Combat (circ. 165,000), generally conceded to be the most stylishly written; the Communist L'Humanité, a pamphleteering paper with a circulation of 470,000; and France-Soir and Paris-Presse (527,000 apiece), which feature splash headlines and big frontpage murder stories...
Thorez was quick to realize his mistake. At 9:30 on "referendum night," the big four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez...