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Long Live the Bomb! The Sunday of voting was preceded by a week of bitterness, guerrilla battles and bloodshed. Extreme rightist bands circulated typewritten leaflets: "Long live the atom bomb, Poland's ultimate guarantee of freedom!" The Communists retaliated by displaying large posters showing a gorilla-like German soldier above the caption: "If you want him back, vote no." Other posters showed Winston Churchill squeezing a rubber doll (Mikolajczyk) and making it cry "No!" The Red humorists found other weapons too. On the eve of the referendum, Mikolajczyk announced that 1,213 of his party officials had been arrested...
...political vultures had swooped and darted. Last week they plunged. Chilean law requires presidential elections within 60 days after the office becomes vacant, and all but one of the prospective candidates had already stumped the country. The exception was 77-year-old ex-President Arturo Alessandri Palma, likely rightist candidate. Because he was too old for that sort of competition, he smartly let it be known that he was also too noble...
...Goums marched into the Place de la Concorde, ending the great Resistance Day parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The flics-recalling fatal rightist riots on the same spot in 1934-laid about blindly with their iron-buttoned capes and arrested a handful of battered demonstrators. Other hotheads besieged Communist headquarters, burned...
Leftists promptly blamed the rightist riot on De Gaulle's speech. In the Chamber of Deputies, Jacques Duclos shook his fist, cried: "Let me warn you. Where the rioters started . . . last night . . . Adolf Hitler started over twenty years ago!" Pravda's correspondent fished farther back in history, likened De Gaulle to President-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Leon éBlum, De Gaulle's most lenient critic, shook his head. "In France the step from presidential to personal power is all too short. . . ." Not a single responsible party leader defended Charles de Gaulle's gravest political mistake...
While Communists and Socialists traded light lefts & rights, the new Rightist Republican Party of Liberty jolted some of its case-hardened reactionary supporters with a manifesto: "The [May 5] referendum victory, which calmed the fears of all Frenchmen loving justice and freedom, cannot in any way be interpreted as a vote in favor of a return to social conservatism...