FRANCES .BIKDSOF.. PREY De Gaulle feasts on crisis Once more the _ bird-like silhouette of General Charles de Gaulle — beak, raised shoulder blades, trailing body and all falls across the French political scene. Risen from his nest on the banks of the Aube, he caws his readiness to assume the burdens of office. His voice, remote, lofty, with a strong suggestion of dedication to France “if she needs me,” sounds incongrous amid the snarlings of the as- sorted jackals of French re- action waiting to feast on the bones of the Fourth Republic. But if he comes to power, high-sounding phrases and all, reaction will triumph and the republic become a corpse. Who does not remember his broadeasts from London when France had been sold to the Germans by greedy bank- ers and seedy generals who would rather toady to the Nazis than see France govern- ed by the workers? Each one began: “Moi, Gen- eral de Gaulle” — not France, not the republic, but “I, Gen- eral de‘ Gaulle.” For this 67-year-old officer, military theorist turned poli- cian, has never doubted that personal power is the way for France, and that he is the person to hold that power. A man “whose role it is to lead the mob,” he once wrote, must combine “egoism, vanity, harshness and cunning.” Cunning there certainly is in plenty in the brain that tops the 6 ft., 6 in. length of this son of a Roman Catholic schoolmaster. Cunning com- bined with the patience of the devil -and implacable hatred FOUR - TEN COFFEE SHOP Specializing in ‘hot’ cornbeef on rye and other fine dishes LOUIE and MOLLY 410 MAIN STREET % am, - 6 p.m. Closed Sunday Ges Installations FURNACES — STOVES WATER HEATERS Harry C. Weinstein GAS CONTRACTOR 692 East Hastings MUtual 3-5044 Res.: AL. 2991-L FREE ESTIMATES of the Left and the working class. a x x Educated at St. Cyr, the French Sandhurst, he found there in abundance the mili- tarist type who yearned for the dead glories of a Nap- oleonic empire, lordship over the masses, brown and white, whose unthinking labor and devotion would provide ma- terial wealth and sustenance to their boundless conceit. He served with note in the First World War, but that service could hardly have af- forded him the satisfaction he drew from joining the Polish staff to crush the Bolsheviks in 1919. The Bolsheviks remained uncrushed, just as the French workers continued to think for themselves, vote for the Communists, and keep a wary eye on plotting bankers and officers. In the thirties they com- bined in the Popular Front to crush the attempt by the Cagoulards, the “hooded men,” the French breed of fascists who wanted an end to parliament and the “party system.” That was not de Gaulle’s way. He wanted a_ dictator- ship, but not a German one. He wanted a 100 percent pure national dictatorship over a France united to obedient colonies. So to London, the founding of the “Free French” forces and war against the Germans, alternating with arrogant quarrels with Churchhill and Roosevelt. $e % $3 In 1944 he returned, Churchill-like, to an admiring country, to find that effective political power was held by his opponents, the Commu- nists and Socialists, with over half the seats in the assembly, and the Communists in the lead. By 1946, having broken his pledges on nationalization, and angered by the refusal of Communists and Socialists to give him super-parliamentary powers, he resigned as head of the government. He had broken another pledge — to purge the armed forces and the police of ex- Cagoulards, men of Vichy and other anti - republican ele- ments. He dallied with “Little Assembly. In 1947 he launched Europe” in the Strasbourg a “Fulton” plan of his own for a British-French-American alliance against the Soviet Union. Appealing to French people to reject the constitution which the three main parties were drawing up, he drew to his Rally of the French People all who thought “party poli- tics” were ruining France, that the government was “selling out” the colonies. But the hard core of its backing was military. In the 1948 elections, it was revealed that military vehicles, genera- ters and gasoline were at the disposal of the RPE. In 1948, too, the white set- tlers of Algeria, alarmed at the surge of the Algerian peo- ple toward independence, plotted to take over the gov- ernment and “act from Africa to put France to rights.” Then de Gaulle said he was ready “to ensure the leading of the country” and prophe- sied. prematurely, that ‘‘the day of political and party combination is almost ending.” The plot failed, the RPF disbanded but the plotters carried on. ef bos aq Their ideas were carried out, hesitantly and decorated with much verbiage about freedom, by the main right wing parties with the assist= ance of the Socialist leader- ship. The policy of the cold war, heavy rearmament, ruinous colonial war, the boosting of private enterprise and profit at home. : This, combined with des- perate attempts by the Social- ists and right wing parties to keep the country’s biggest party, the Communists, out of government, has reduced the assembly td a cockpit of war- ring factions and France to a parlous economic state. In 1950 and at subsequent dates, the Communists warn- ed that the policy would kill the republic, and that the plotters were at work. The Socialist leaders ignor- ed them and went on patching up unstable alliances with the Right while governments rose and fell. Now the cry is raised — “party politics are useless,” “Algeria is French.” ‘Make France strong,” “France needs a strong hand at the helm.” The most rabid of reaction- aries, the white settlers in Algeria, seize power after a shadow battle with all-too- willing security forces led by the officer-plotters. And once again de Gaulle says: “I am ready.” The right wing of Europe applauds dis- creetly in the background and the carrion eaters gather to see the republic choked to death. But the republic is made of the blood, flesh and bone of its working people, now gath- ering in the factories, streets and meeting halls to defend ner: They are ready, too. we GENERAL de GAULLE Too late in history May 23, 1958 — p PACIFIC TRIBUNE— Three state ease ban Ol Communists SANTIAGO — The ean Chamber of Depull® voted to revoke the B% tions for the “protect? Democracy” which aes the Communist partly? tt in that country since “og is expected that the will endorse the action storing the party® ' status. fall The Chilean mové esta similar moves in ent? civil libertiés in AM in Brazil. “ue In Argentina, 1 op Communist party Pati been allowed to resuli cation. And in Brazil, munist leader J” Prestes, haunted by po the past 10 years: : back into public life. 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