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...Poujade an unrecognized Hitler, or a nuisance that will pass? The prevailing Parisian opinion is that Poujadism is a passing fancy. There have been tax revolts before, and demagogues to capitalize on them. There have been protests before against a parliamentary system which seems increasingly unable to reach a decision, or to let anyone else reach one. De Gaulle (rigid in his dislike of parliamentary palaver but no demagogue) polled nearly twice Poujade's vote only five years ago. Old hands in the French Assembly, unexcelled in cynical wisdom, have seen to the corruption of other hot incorruptibles...
...program did not sit well with anybody. "A fake attempt to negotiate peace and half measures to prepare for war!" cried Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber in L'Express (the newspaper of the Mendès-France camp, which this week gave up its costly attempt to become a Parisian daily and went back to being a weekly). The left-wing Combat warned: "It is the Indo-China solution. The shameful war by petits paquets [little packets], the blood spilled uselessly, with the prospect of an increasing extension of hostilities, capped by a new Dienbienphu." The government itself was showing...
...Madagascar exile seven months ago, now returned in triumph to open negotiations for Moroccan independence. Welcomed at the airport by Premier Guy Mollet and a platoon of ministers, the Sultan was borne off with his wives to a tapestried villa, and launched on a round of banquets and Parisian splendors...
...clatter of applause rose last week in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium Opera House as one of the city's most distinguished citizens appeared on the stage. Debonair, white-haired Vladimir Golschmann, 62, bowed; this Parisian son of Russian parents was obviously very much at home. Then he turned, and whisked his baton over the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. On the program: Pianist Lukas Foss, playing his own Concerto No. 2. Conductor Golschmann has led his orchestra for 25 years-longer than the tenure of any other U.S. conductor now working...
...France's postwar comeback is largely the work of a burly Frenchman with a booming laugh and a bike-racer's stamina: Board Chairman Max Hymans, 55, a native Parisian who was successively an engineer, patent attorney, politician, and resistance leader before signing on as Free