Whiz-Bang

Parisians have been somewhat put out by the somewhat uninhibited conduct of U.S. troops in their city. But the press discreetly refrained from comment--until last week, when the Canard Enchaine tossed a satiric whizbang:

"We have been able to note . . . that the French have pushed their cruelty to the point of constructing rectilinear sidewalks just so the unfortunate American soldiers who have drunk a dozen innocent white wine-brandies can't follow them.

"What is more, at 3 o'clock in the morning Parisians go home just in order to force the unfortunate G.I.s to fill up the whole street and sing at the top of their lungs to keep up their courage.

". . . Sadism is pushed to the degree of doubling or tripling, at the same hour, the lampposts, the trees and the policemen in order to end up by terrifying the poor victims.

". . . The infernal Montmartre nightclubs, attendance at which is obligatory for G.I.s under pain of being deprived of champagne, are the scenes of intolerable provocations. Numerous mirrors . . . are hung on the walls for the sole purpose of obliging our Allies to demolish them with revolver shots. ..."

U.S. military authorities have decided to correct the situation.

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