Se Prostituer?

In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was impatient. Said he: "It is generally agreed that national elections* cannot be held until the war prisoners and labor conscripts have returned. Since this is likely to be months hence, there will probably be a long interval before a freely elected government assumes office. This means the provisional regime may be in power a long time. Will it have to wait indefinitely during a period of crucial decision affecting the future before enjoying normal relations with its Allies?"

Cracked an indignant French diplomat in Washington: "Mon Dieu, que faut-il faire pour leur plaire? Se prostituer?"

(My God, what have we got to do to please them? Prostitute ourselves? )

* Last week General Charles de Gaulle's Government set Feb. 1 for its first elections, for local offices only. Frenchmen thought it sheer optimism to expect some 2,000,000 deportees and prisoners home from Germany so soon.

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