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...dismissal of Joliot-Curie did not yet mean a security housecleaning in the Republic's government. He had put a lot of his comrades on the Atomic Commission, and the government had made no move to oust them. France's feeble government had not acted on its own initiative; Bidault had merely reacted "with regret" to repeated kicks in the teeth by the Communist Party, which was, through a campaign of riots and threats, menacing the security of France...
...absurd and dangerous mockery of Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the head of France's Atomic Research Commission (TIME, April 17) came to an end last week. Premier Georges Bidault announced, "with regret," the dismissal of the Red nuclear physicist. "Whatever the qualifications of this scientist," said the Premier, "his public statements and his unreserved acceptance of the [pro-Russian] resolutions . . . of the Communist Party make it impossible to maintain him in his functions of High Commissioner...
...Dautry, then French armaments minister, had tried to justify this situation with Gallic sophistication: "Our atomic scientists are men of all political views. You cannot control what goes on in their minds. Who knows what a man really means when he tells a girl he loves her?" Last week, Joliot-Curie left no doubt in anybody's mind about what he meant. At a Communist Party meeting he declared that he would not collaborate with the U.S. on atomic-energy matters. Said he -"We Communists know that the Soviet Union will not be the first to use the atomic...
...French government hastily assured the U.S. that Joliot-Curie was engaged only in "nonmilitary" research while the really important work was done by "another agency" (a scientifically impossible distinction); anyway, the French added, Joliot-Curie was under constant police surveillance. Very likely, the French would catch him tf he tried to pass any secrets to Russia. But again, that was not the point. The point was that the free world, while frantically searching for Communists under the bed, was overlooking a Communist right in the bedclothes...
...could be said with as much assurance as is ever brought to human affairs that Lattimore, Strachey and Joliot-Curie were not spies. The ideas of Lattimore, Strachey and Joliot-Curie were not the same, but anyone with a lively sense of danger in the free world could legitimately hold the opinion that the ideas of these three might be more dangerous than a carload of spies...