In the summer of 1944 the French Resistance press came out from, its underground print shops with ink on its hands and blood in its eye. In Paris and the provinces, squads of grim newsmen toting Tommy guns took over the Nazi-controlled newspaper plants and ousted the collaborationists. Almost overnight, the press of the nation was reborn.
Last week the French press was in another desperate fight for survival. In two months, one in seven of the country's 164 dailies had folded, including four out of ten Communist mouthpieces. In Paris, the Socialist Party's...
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