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Ninety-Four Pages. Last week, with Monnet still presiding over the blueprint, the six nations' experts whipped the historic document into shape at their Paris headquarters in the Rue Martignac behind the Chamber of Deputies. The building was as busy as a beehive. At the ground floor entrance, motorcycle cops were ready to rush urgent messages all over Paris. Upstairs, in his large, sober office, Monnet was in almost permanent conference with the delegation chiefs. Argument and counterargument had been sifted down into 94 blue-bound pages of agreement. Highlights...
...most important issues are "gerrymandering" and Plan E. Rue to the character of the population, both parties are also charging each other, as usual, with discrimination. On this last issue, politicians admit, the charges are at least partly true on both sides...
Returning to Paris last spring, Paul made a beeline for the Rue de la Huchette, like a man taking up again with an old but still tantalizing mistress. He sat down immediately to write another book about his shabby but still high-pitched and mercurial street. It hadn't changed much and neither has Paul's way of writing about...
Even his beloved Rue de la Huchette, Paul found, has its quota of Communists. In a crisis, they and their fellows would be more dangerous-because more dedicated-than the collaborators of World War II. Through the labor unions, they controlled the daily life of Paris, made their power felt in ways that ranged from anti-U.S. propaganda to slowdowns in delivering baggage to priests. When the clerks at the Paris stock exchange went on strike, says Paul, the Communist-influenced sanitation department massed loaded garbage trucks near the Bourse building to help bring the brokers to terms...
There is little doubt that Author Paul loves the Rue de la Huchette, its food, its people and its liveliness. His weakness as a reporter of it is not so much his frank bias as his congenital tendency to smother his account in cuteness. Springtime is Paris seen through the bottom of a wineglass...