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True Grandeur. To no one is the showcase of television more important than to the man coming up fastest in the campaign: Jean Lecanuet, 45, a Senator from Seine-Maritime and recently president of the Catholic center M.R.P. (Mouvement Républicain Populaire) party. Already being hailed by his supporters and the press as "the French Kennedy" because of his telegenic good looks and stylish rapport with crowds, Lecanuet in a mere month has raised himself from obscurity to importance with the cry, "Why does France not have a young President?" He is hitting De Gaulle hard on Europe...
Former Premier Cyrille Adoula, his own Radeco Party badly split and losing influence, refuses to leave his self-imposed exile in Rome to contest the elections. The far-leftists have not had a real leader since Patrice Lumumba, whose once powerful Mouvement National Congolais has been fragmented and dispersed. The most radical Lumumbist elements are leading the rebels -and have refused a challenge by Tshombe to lay down their arms and enter their own candidates at the polls...
...mistrust to cross. The F.L.N. position is that France may "consult" with all Algerian factions but must negotiate only with the F.L.N. Last week F.L.N. tempers flared when Louis Joxe, De Gaulle's Minister for Algeria, said that he would meet with a small Moslem group, the Mouvement National Algérien (M.N.A.), "as I will meet with the F.L.N...
France has its own Titoists. They are a group of "nationalist" Communists who, like Tito, are for Marxism but against the way Stalin & Co. boss the show in Marxism's name. The group, calling itself Mouvement Communiste Français, was founded a month ago in the northern coal fields by one Charles Lemoine, a stocky ex-coal miner. At a rally of 400 miners, he cried: "The Communist Party, yesterday our hope, has been unconditionally handed over to Moscow . . . For this party, the interests of the French people are subordinated to the interests of the Soviet Union...
...unofficial representatives of France's Mouvement Républicain Populaire held out firmly against full collaboration with Western Germany. Said one French delegate: "If all Germans were Christian Democrats we might feel differently...