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...wing weekly L'Observateur. The Viet Minh duly invaded Laos. They were unopposed. In May 1954, soon after the fall of Dienbienphu, Chief of Staff General Paul Ely outlined France's catastrophic military situation to the Defense Committee. Two days later L'Express (edited by Jacques Servan-Schreiber and then in stout support of Mendès-France for Premier) printed the secret plan to send conscripts to Indo-China. Ex-Police Commissioner Baylot testified he had done nothing about the leaks. Pleaded Baylot: "You know.how it is. Whenever you signal something like that, somebody will tell...
Useless Blood. Mollet's 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...
...Cruel Hoax. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's L'Express (circ. 75,000) promptly slashed at the Elle charges with double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...presides over a salon peopled with avant-garde writers and left-wing intellectual-politicians. Where Mendès whipped men to decision by the scornful lash of his tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted that he had reduced the tax on race horses for the sake of his fellow members of the Racing Club, challenged the editor to a duel, was practicing myopicaliy with a revolver before Mendès managed to calm...
...Maxim's to discuss weapons. At last the advisers produced a new version, criticizing L'Express' "fallacious account," and declaring that the Premier "deplored that inadmissible insinuations be leveled at the professional conscience" of someone who enjoyed the Premier's entire confidence. Faure was mollified, Servan-Schreiber was relieved that he would not be required to print a retraction. Late that night the seconds announced that "there are no grounds for an encounter or for reparations, and it would be desirable to consider the incident closed...