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From Slingshot . . . French Communists took the Goliath position, registered tolerant amusement at David's slingshot declaration of total psychological war on Communism. They were less amused one evening recently when a surprise Paix et Liberté broadcast came over the state-run radio at 8 p.m., France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
While the Communists were still muttering over the implications of this, David hit them again, out of his knowledge that Moscow had sent Professor Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...
Before the National Assembly last week was a bill to extend military service from 12 to 18 months. The Reds had fought it with the slogan: "Down with 18 months' service!" But their campaign melted away when Paix et Liberté countered: "Down with 18 months' service! We want three years' service, same as in Russia!" Then the comrades showed how badly they had been hurt. They decided that Paix et Liberté was so dangerous that it had better be ignored. Mention of it was banned in the Red press...
David is reserving his own best efforts to exposure of "the greatest Communist lie of all-the lie that Communism seeks peace." This week 150,000 Paix et Liberté posters will go up all over France; on them Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...
...Burma government last week seemed to be looking for a graceful way to drop a hot potato, i.e., its prosecution for "high treason" of famed Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave (TIME., Oct. 16 et...