Socialists vs. Communists in France

A cartoon in the Paris rightist daily Figaro shows a gleeful (President of the Republic) Valery Giscard d’Estaing watching a television screen on which Francois Mitterrand (Socialist party), Georges Marchais (Communist party) and Robert Fabre (Left-Radicals) attack one another. Turning to his Prime Minister Raymond Barre, Giscard says, “They’re right, you know. We don’t let them appear often enough on television!”

The great majority of the French ...