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...nationalism Brinton emphasizes can hardly be pro-American; if the signs "Ridgeway la peste" were erected by Communists as Brinton contends, the more reassuring "Stalines a Moscou" may equally well spring from activity of a few Gaullists. Though moderate governments have at least a precarious hold in all of Western Europe except in Spain and Portugal, Brinton admits that most intellectuals distrust Americans. Yet Brinton's solace that there are "promising beginnings" in the average European's attitude toward America is based on subjective evidence, curiously flimsy for an historian to present...
From these speculations to the fear of civil war was only a step. Would this fear abate, now that the Indo-China crisis was past? Perhaps the only ones who knew were an old Black Sea mutineer and a man called "L'oeil de Moscou...
When an M.R.P. deputy rose to speak, the Communists shouted "A Rome! A Rome! (Back to Rome!)" When a Communist deputy rose to speak, the M.R.P. shouted "A Moscou! A Moscou! (Back to Moscow!)" Thus France's Assembly discussed the new draft constitution for the Fourth Republic...
Greasy, thick-lipped Pierre Laval went home and sought solace in music. He turned on his radio and heard in idiomatic French: "Frenchmen! Take up arms against the invaders and light the fuse of revolt. Ici Moscou. Ici Moscou." He spun the dial nervously and heard London's Fighting French station saying: "Frenchmen, Wait!" He felt better, but not much...
...Daladier was supported vigorously by Jean Chiappe, former Prefect of Police whose name was considerably clouded by the Alexandre Stavisky scandals of 1934. ''Put Chiappe in prison!" roared the Left. "A bas Moscou!" ("Down with Moscow!") came back to Right...