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Like Victor Hugo's dogged Javert, Jean Baylot, Prefect of Paris Police, was a policeman with one idea. The shootings, burglaries, thievery and other routine crimes he left to his staff to handle; the shadowy underworld which lies behind the beauty of Paris hardly knew his name. Baylot concentrated 16,000 policemen and his own single-minded will on hunting and harassing Communists. He was uncommonly effective: when Parisian Communists said the name of Jean Baylot, they spat...
...start swinging their white batons, and blandly explained: "There is no defensive action that is not offensive in nature." When the Communists resisted, he gave his cops steel helmets, machine guns and tear gas. His weak eyes squinting through a pair of heavy-rimmed dark glasses, plump little Prefect Baylot looked like a clerk, but he used his force and the terrain like a general...
Kick Upstairs. As Bastille Day (July 14) drew near again, word got around that the Prefect of Police and the new Mendès-France government were not hitting it off well. Baylot wanted to ban the traditional Red parade; some Cabinet ministers disagreed; Socialist supporters of the new regime, though antiCommunist, were anti-tough...
Last week the worker-priest seminary at Limoges announced that its reopening was indefinitely postponed. Simultaneously, the official paper of the diocese of Chartres published a letter sent in July to all archbishops and bishops of France by Cardinal Pizzardo, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities in Rome. The worker-priest experiment, wrote Pizzardo, has "had a negative influence in the formation of young priests and, because of this, any further attempts of this kind are to be discouraged ... As a consequence, this Sacred Congregation absolutely forbids all seminary students in France to engage in any kind...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...