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Decrees for Drunks. The fact was, however, that milk-drinking Mendès, who has little use for wine, was not kidding. Many of the liquor reforms he advocated last week went into immediate effect as government decrees. In one swoop, he ordered all bars to stop selling hard liquor between the hours of 5 and 10 a.m., when most French laborers take their morning eye-opener. One day each week the bars must shut down completely. No new bars are to be opened near schools or barracks...
...home-brewing of head-splitting Calvados (applejack) in Normandy was to be sharply curtailed. Alcoholic contents of wine-based apéritifs were cut, and liquor advertising was to be strictly limited in the future. Besides all this, Mendès planned to ask Parliament for legislation raising liquor taxes and imposing stiff penalties (up to a year in prison) for public drunkenness...
...When Mendès himself appeared at the recent Radical-Socialist Party congress, drinking a glass of milk and urging all of the delegates "to do the same thing," he was greeted with roars of laughter. By last week the laughter was abating. Liquor interests, thirsty workmen, café owners, bartenders, home-brewers and, indeed, most of France's hard-drinking population, were mobilizing to combat the threat to their national pastime. They form a large bloc: one Frenchman in seven is involved in the making of wine; alcohol is France's largest industry, grossing some 675 billion...
...turn to the East, we are lost. For, although there is widespread resentment in Germany over the treatment Russians have inflicted upon deported populations, it is Russia which holds in its hands all that Germany wants : its reunification first, which neither President Eisenhower, nor Sir Winston Churchill, nor M. Mendès-France can give her. One word from the Kremlin, however, could. Germany needs to export towards Eastern Europe, towards Russia, towards China. What would she not do to secure these markets? And even this isn't all, for Russia can offer to Germany, as the supreme gift...
Meet the Press (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guest: France's Pierre Mendès-France...