Word: tireurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empty Comfort. Even leftists had their eyes opened. Wrote France's often pro-Communist Franc-Tireur: "In this sad adventure . . . Russia has wound up creating the very [Western] bloc she wanted to avoid. . . ." Wrote London's Laborite Daily Herald: "Russia's present policy is aimed calmly and deliberately at preventing European unity...
...national election day (Oct. 21), Frenchmen also will vote whether 1) to draft a new constitution, 2) to leave General de Gaulle in power in the interim. Some Frenchmen who oppose De Gaulle, whom the leftist Franc-Tireur recently cartooned as holding the "Apple of Discord" (see cut), are for a new constitution. In any case, if France votes as she did last week, General de Gaulle will remain at the head of the Government, supported by Bidault and Blum. Maurice Thorez' Communists and Edouard Herriot's Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist) will...
Since, by Government order, no paper which published with German permission could reopen, only five of Paris' prewar dailies are still in business. Their successors - there were twelve on Liberation Day, 31 now - are skimpy, cautious, color less. Some (the best: Combat, Franc-Tireur, Resistance) came up from the underground, and are mainly leftist and critical of De Gaulle. Newer dailies are mostly rightist, 100% pro-De Gaulle...