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Last week, 51 leaders of French Communism gathered in a Paris suburban town hall to hear reports from pudgy Jacques Duclos and bull-necked Georges Cogniot, envoys to last month's meeting of the Cominform (TIME, Dec. 12). They relayed orders for a drive against "titoism, Trotskyites and police spies." Said Duclos: "I was reminded of a reproach once uttered by our Comrade Jose Diaz (prewar Spanish Communist leader): 'You are too fat. Revolutions are not made with stomachs like yours...
White-haired Georges Cogniot, editor in chief of L'Humanite (circ. 450,000), insists that "the press is now venal in a different way from before the war. It still gets money from [big business] trusts, publicity or the government's secret funds." But the charge can neither be proved nor disproved. The government allots newsprint, pegs its price, and subsidizes the news service A.F.P. (which could not exist otherwise), but expression is free...