Tally Ho!

Last week all France went hunting--and the quarry was man. The patriots were having their long-looked-for day. In city streets and country woods, Frenchmen and their wives and children tracked down the Germans and collaborationists like animals. Sometimes the quarry was dispatched out of hand. More often, by an instinct for justice and law that was stronger than vengeance or terror, the quarry was jailed.

P: In Paris, 7,000 alleged collaborators were in prisons or concentration camps which had just been emptied of their patriot prisoners.

P: Gaullist special police finecombed every government bureau, profession and business.

P:Among industrialists arrested or marked for arrest: Rene Duchemin (French Employers Federation), JosephTrotard (Francolor, an I. G. Farben stooge). Franc,ois Lehideux (auto magnate, ex-Vichy Production Minister), Hypolite Worms (banker). Others: Rene Fonck (World War I ace), Georges Grappe (Rodin Museum Curator), Albert Blaser (Director of Maxim's), Jean-Herold Paquis (radio commentator), Bernard Fay (historian). Most of the Directors of the Bank of France were suspended.

P: A wave of denunciations swept Paris. A single denunciation by one or more persons was enough to effect an arrest. Concentration camps were a bedlam. Gaullist police tried to establish order, weed out the unquestionably innocent.

P: France's Immortals, the black-robed Academie Franc,aise, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps.

P: The Comite des Ecrivains (authors' association) publicly denounced: Paul Morand, ex-Vichy Ambassador to Bucharest; pro-German Novelists Jean Giono, Louis Ferdinand Celine (Louis Destouches), Journalists Henry de Montherlant, Jacques Chardonne.

P: French Gestapo Boss Pierre Bony was caught by patriots. He was disguised as a hobo. With him was his aide, Henry La Font, disguised as a hired farm hand.

P: In Grenoble the local Committee of Liberation screamed: "Any sentence but death applied to the Milice does not coincide with the will of the French people."

P: In Annecy, on a rifle range where the Germans had killed many a Maquis, an F.F.I. firing squad snuffed out 24 SS and Gestapomen.

Rumor said that the Gaullists had 700,000 names on their blacklist. Subprefect Edgar Pisani of the Paris Special Police promised a fair trial for every accused person. He said: "We want to be deliberate and methodical. Why hurry to round up those still at large? Some inevitably will get away but we are bound to catch up with the great majority sooner or later."

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