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Named French commander in chief and commissioner general for Indo-China: General Paul Ely, 56, for the past ten months chief of staff of the French armed forces...
...Greek philosophy and long periods of silence. He lives austerely, eats sparingly, conserves his strength and is considered to be in poor health. As French chief of staff. Ely visited Washington in March, where one unimpressed U.S. official nicknamed him "the poodle." Sent on a post-Dienbienphu tour of Indo-China, he recommended the prompt reinforcement of the Red River Delta and the replacement of General Henri Navarre. The French Cabinet asked Marshal Juin if he would take Navarre's job, but Juin did not want it. So the Cabinet asked Ely. He will be the eighth top commander...
...usual. Next day when he arrived at the office he found the doors closed tight and sealed with official wax. The government had seized the current issue of his weekly and temporarily closed the office. The charge: "ministers or generals were divulging secrets of national defense" concerning Indo-China, which L'Express had printed...
Last week, in the uproar that followed, Marc Jacquet, Under Secretary for the Indo-China States, who had in the past slipped reports to Servan-Schreiber, resigned, and there was a shakeup in the French military high command (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week L'Express was out again-and its circulation shot up by 13,000-to 115,000-and is still rising. Said Editor Servan-Schreiber happily: "The government really did us the best turn they possibly could...
...where many newspapers are helped by hidden government or party subsidies and many are corrupt, L'Express is a postwar journalistic oddity. Confident, alert Editor Servan-Schreiber got the weekly off to a fast start a year ago by printing in its second issue a parliamentary report on Indo-China that the shaky government had asked other papers not to print. L'Express grew steadily, now runs some of the leading writers in France. Editor Servan-Schreiber is a friendly critic of U.S. foreign policy, bridles at being called a "neutralist," and says his basic political idea...