Becoming Medieval?

One of the encouraging notes about France's discouraging situation is the fact that some Frenchmen themselves are getting worried about things. Thundered the new conservative weekly, L'Express, edited by able young Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber:

"Every one of us, every day, meets countrymen, often in the highest places of the national hierarchy, who treat with a grand contempt, even anger, any uneasiness that one expresses on the French situation. They repeat that this uneasiness is nothing but the result of Communist propaganda, and that one should have the courage to say, in all good conscience, 'Things aren't going so badly' . . .

"Their satisfaction is monstrous stupidity. These illusions must be dispelled; they are as dangerous as morphine.

"Equilibrium is not the same as health . . . The Spanish economy is in equilibrium, like the Italian economy, like that of Abyssinia . . . Most Frenchmen eat, bathe and warm themselves fairly well in the winter. But little by little, faster and faster, one sees the conditions in which they live becoming medieval in relation to those countries which have managed to stay in the race. Just as Spain has fallen by the wayside, France, if she doesn't wake up, will become the Spain of the second half of the century . . ."

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